institutionalize
verb (used with object)
to make institutional.
institutionalise
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a variation of
institutionalize.
Example Sentences
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"I have instructed my ministry to act immediately to institutionalise ties between the two countries across a wide range of fields," he said in a statement on X.
From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025
Foreign ministers Olivia Rouamba for Burkina Faso, Morissansa Kouyate for Guinea and Abdoulaye Diop for Mali noted "the need to set up and institutionalise a permanent coordination framework between the three countries".
From Reuters ● Feb. 10, 2023
He said the union now planned to "institutionalise firm definitions of racism", including anti-black racism and anti-Semitism.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2021
Because the attacks occurred in an already wired world, the denialism it spawned has never managed to institutionalise and develop an orthodoxy in the way that pre-internet denialisms did.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2018
Over-forceful bosses can turn their subordinates into patsies; consensus-obsessed bosses can institutionalise dithering.
From Economist ● Jun. 6, 2013
