institutionalize
to make institutional.
to make into or treat as an institution: the danger of institutionalizing racism.
to place or confine in an institution, especially one for the care of mental illness, alcoholism, etc.
Origin of institutionalize
1- Also especially British, in·sti·tu·tion·al·ise .
Other words from institutionalize
- in·sti·tu·tion·al·i·za·tion [in-sti-too-shuh-nl-ahy-zey-shuhn, -tyoo-], /ˌɪn stɪˌtu ʃə nlˌaɪˈzeɪ ʃən, -ˌtyu-/, noun
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How to use institutionalize in a sentence
Complacency and procrastination are our worst enemies here and only work to institutionalize inequity.
Google rolls out new products for travel and leisure businesses; Thursday’s daily brief | George Nguyen | September 23, 2021 | Search Engine Land“I’ve found it helpful to institutionalize taking days off after big, emotionally draining assignments,” said Wang.
Media Briefing: How media leaders are trying to combat burnout beyond the newsroom | Tim Peterson | May 6, 2021 | DigidayHe was institutionalized from ages 7 to 14 and said he was arrested for the first time when he was 10, for arson.
DMX, chart-topping rapper with gruff voice and hardscrabble life, dies at 50 | Harrison Smith | April 9, 2021 | Washington PostFERA ended in 1935 as new legislation institutionalized its roles in agencies that would function beyond the immediate disaster of the Depression.
Franklin Roosevelt understood that people need direct relief in a crisis | Suzanne Kahn | February 26, 2021 | Washington PostThe party was built to institutionalize power but it wasn’t well built to protect that power.
What happens to an entrenched two-party system when one party undermines the system? | Philip Bump | February 12, 2021 | Washington Post
Better institutionalize me a second time...” and “Academia is going to have to get used to a bit of immoderate tweeting.
Prof: MIT Hospitalized Me For Ferguson Tweets | Nina Strochlic | December 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHer parents were told to institutionalize her, but thankfully, they bucked the conventional advice.
The Most Inspiring Bits of Temple Grandin’s Reddit AMA | Emily Shire | November 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLike Carver, Borlaug then sought to institutionalize his breakthroughs.
Therefore, any impulse to institutionalize the exclusion of the Muslim Brotherhood will be a catastrophe.
Fourth, Rapid Dominance aims to achieve new levels of operational competence that can virtually institutionalize "brilliance."
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British Dictionary definitions for institutionalize
institutionalise
/ (ˌɪnstɪˈtjuːʃənəˌlaɪz) /
(tr; often passive) to subject to the deleterious effects of confinement in an institution: a mental patient who was institutionalized into boredom and apathy
(tr) to place in an institution
to make or become an institution
Derived forms of institutionalize
- institutionalization or institutionalisation, noun
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