institutionalize
[in-sti-too-shuh-nl-ahyz, -tyoo-]
- 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.
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Also especially British, in·sti·tu·tion·al·ise.
Origin of institutionalize
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Her parents were told to institutionalize her, but thankfully, they bucked the conventional advice.
Like Carver, Borlaug then sought to institutionalize his breakthroughs.
Therefore, any impulse to institutionalize the exclusion of the Muslim Brotherhood will be a catastrophe.
institutionalize
institutionalise
- (tr; often passive) to subject to the deleterious effects of confinement in an institutiona mental patient who was institutionalized into boredom and apathy
- (tr) to place in an institution
- to make or become an institution
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Word Origin and History for institutionalize
v.
"to put into institutional life" (usually deprecatory), 1905; see institution. Related: Institutionalized. Earlier (1865) it meant "to make into an institution."
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institutionalize
(ĭn′stĭ-tōō′shə-nə-līz′)- To place a person in the care of an institution, especially one providing care for the disabled or mentally ill.
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