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institute
  1. (transitive) To begin or initiate (something); to found.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To train, instruct.
  3. To nominate; to appoint.
  4. (ecclesiastical, law) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “So, as the new season begins, your favorite correspondent has decided to turn over a new leaf and institute some new policies.”
      “And after my dispositions are complied with, I institute him as the legitimate heir of the remainder of all my goods.”
institutionalize
  1. to establish as a normal practice
  2. to commit a person to confinement in an institution
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  4. Examples:
    1. “We must constantly work to improve conditions in all areas of our work and institutionalize our process improvements.”
      “The more difficult task is to institutionalize a process that can achieve his vision.”
      “The effect has been to institutionalize a process that, by its very nature, seems to defy institutionalization.”
institutionalized
institutionalise
  1. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of institutionalize
  2. Examples:
    1. “A lot of what is on our airwaves is not the kind of thing we want to institutionalise, and to not have a code, we think we have retrogressed.”
      “Adam Przeworski, a political scientist, once defined democracy as a way to institutionalise uncertainty.”
      “WaterAid is working to institutionalise the water point mapping model into national water supply sector monitoring systems.”
institutionalizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of institutionalize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “But anthropology, in fact, guards a treasure house of examples of what happens when a society institutionalizes other arrangements.”
      “The Lithuanian parliament voted on Tuesday to adopt a controversial law that institutionalizes homophobia.”
      “The system of managed migration institutionalizes this arrangement.”
institutionalises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of institutionalise
institutionalised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of institutionalise
  2. Examples:
    1. “That was sort of shelved when I was institutionalised, but my mother called me that as soon as I went home.”
      “And, while Sam lives like a king in the kennels and is adored by the staff, Mr and Mrs Smith are worried he has become institutionalised.”
      “That's how long it has taken to deal with the question of locked-up money belonging to people who were once institutionalised.”
institutes
instituteth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of institute
institutest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of institute
institutionalising
  1. present participle of institutionalise
institutionalizing
  1. present participle of institutionalize
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This task of institutionalizing the peace process on the Peninsula will take time.”
      “The proposed reforms are aimed at promoting transparency and institutionalizing genuine competition.”
      “This could be accomplished by institutionalizing a routine assessment of emerging issues explicitly in a new Agreement.”
instituted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of institute
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  3. Examples:
    1. “With no criminal proceedings pending in the case, the family instituted civil proceedings.”
      “Emperor Meiji initiated instituted wide sweeping political, civil and social reforms which transformed Japan into a significant world power.”
      “One of the first programs instituted by the Japanese was land reform that made the landowner the sole owner.”
instituting
  1. present participle of institute
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  3. Examples:
    1. “For example, the agency instituting repression must be derived from the ego, the conscious part of the mind.”
      “Mental or physical illness, therefore, may be considered as instituting regression to an early stage of infantile development.”
      “These range from instituting a single transferable ballot to proportional representation.”
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