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institution Definition

in·sti·tu·tion (in′stə to̵̅o̅′s̸hən, -tyo̵̅o̅′-)

noun

  1. an instituting or being instituted; establishment
  2. an established law, custom, practice, system, etc.
    1. an organization, society, or corporation, having a public character, as a school, church, bank, hospital, etc.
    2. the building housing such an organization
  4. a person or thing long established in a place

Etymology: ME institucion < OFr < L institutio

institution Synonyms

institution

n.

  1. The act of setting up

    establishment, foundation, organization; see establishing, organization 1.

  2. An organization, corporation, etc.

    company, system, institute, asylum; see business 4, hospital, organization 3, school 1, university.

  3. An established custom, practice, etc.

    convention, tradition, fixture; see custom 2.

institution Finance Definition
A company holding assets for others. Institutions include banks, insurance companies, pension funds, and mutual funds. The term also is used in the trading context to talk about the companies that trade securities in very large volumes.
institution Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • slavery: This said, one of the peculiarities of late colonial Brazil was the prevalence of the institution of slavery.
  • marriage: They want to destroy the institution of marriage, " Dobson said.

Possessives

  • resolver: Links must be configured between the institution's resolver and each of its providers.

Converse of object

  • subscribe: The full text is accessible to subscribing institutions in PDF format.
  • participate: The voucher is valid for one year and will enable you to borrow from up to three participating institutions.
  • accredit: Before acting on any information provided, the ' reader ' should confirm the details provided with the accrediting engineering institution.
  • authorize: The quality approval at our factory is made by a national authorized quality institution.
  • designate: SENDA applies to higher and further education sector institutions and what are described as ' other designated institutions ' .

Adjective modifier

  • financial: My client is a major financial institution based Skipton.
  • educational: Any educational institution is welcome to use this material.
  • he: We hope that a member of our team will visit every HE institution where our subjects are taught.
  • academic: I remember whilst studying at an academic institution in London, I used a pc to do some word processing.
  • democratic: New technology can also be used to improve the way citizens engage with each other and with democratic institutions.
  • high: All 175 publicly funded higher education institutions in the United Kingdom have been included.

Noun used with modifier

  • education: Case Studies Eleven teacher education institutions in Europe were selected for detailed study in relation to the Profile.
  • lending: The firm is on the approved panels of most of the UK's leading lending institutions.
  • partner: Economic We continue to work with partner HE institutions in the Regional HE Economic Development Association.
  • host: The good news: there are no fees to the host institution, ever.
  • banking: Phoenix Condor Safe Security and Fire safe for high risk commercial & banking institutions.
  • he: Economic We continue to work with partner HE institutions in the Regional HE Economic Development Association.
institution Quotes

She has been beastly to the Bank of England, has demanded that the BBC'set its house in order'and tends to believe the worst of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. She cannot see an institution without hitting it with her handbag.

—Critchley, SirJulian Michael Gordon

It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army 168 and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.

—Burke, Edmund

In so far as the familyas an institution turns women into darling littleslaves andmenintotheirchief providers and unweaned dependents, the problem of a satisfactory marriage remains incapable of purely private solution.

—Mills, C(harles) Wright

Politics are much discussed, so are banks, so is cotton. Quiet peopleavoid the question of the Presidency†the great constitutional feature of this institution being, that directly theacrimonyof the last election is over, the next one begins.

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

The institution of the throne is an anachronistic, feudal institution perfectly adapted to the use of anachronistic feudal-minded groups.

—Acheson, Dean Gooderham

Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?

—Jarrell, Randall

It's more than a game. It's an institution.

—Hughes,Ted (Edward James)

No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public reputation.

—Friedman, Milton

The House of Lords must be the only institution in the world that is kept efficient by the persistent absenteeism of its members.

—Samuel, Herbert Louis, 1st Viscount Samuel

Unlike the Laws of Production, those of Distribution are partly of human institution, since the manner in which wealth is distributed in any given society, depends on the statutes or usages therein obtaining.

—Mill,John Stuart

Isnot marriageanopenquestion, whenit isalleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institutionwishtoget out; and suchas are out wishtoget in.

—Emerson, RalphWaldo