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Defenition of the word institution

    • Defenition of the word institution

      • Stucture that has been organised for a certain scope (that can be for nor not for profit), which the legislation attributes a incorporated status.
      • starting something for the first time
      • a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated
      • a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society; "the institution of marriage"; "he had become an institution in the theater"
      • an organization founded and united for a specific purpose
      • the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new; "she looked forward to her initiation as an adult"; "the foundation of a new scientific society"; "he regards the fork as a modern introduction"
      • an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated
      • a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
      • a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society; "the institution of marriage"; "the institution of slavery"; "he had become an institution in the theater"
      • the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
      • a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society

    Synonyms for the word institution

      • association
      • body
      • convention
      • creation
      • custom
      • establishment
      • foundation
      • founding
      • initiation
      • instauration
      • institute
      • introduction
      • organization
      • origination
      • ritual
      • setting up
      • society
      • tradition

    Similar words in the institution

      • institution
      • institution's
      • institutional
      • institutionalize
      • institutionalized
      • institutionalizes
      • institutionalizing
      • institutions

    Hyponyms for the word institution

      • academy
      • authorship
      • Bedlam
      • booby hatch
      • charity
      • company
      • crazy house
      • cuckoo's nest
      • educational institution
      • faith
      • financial institution
      • financial organisation
      • financial organization
      • funny farm
      • funny house
      • home
      • honorary society
      • issuer
      • levirate
      • loony bin
      • madhouse
      • medical institution
      • nursing home
      • nut house
      • nuthouse
      • organized religion
      • orphanage
      • orphans' asylum
      • paternity
      • penal facility
      • penal institution
      • religion
      • rest home
      • sanatorium
      • snake pit
      • vicariate
      • vicarship

    Hypernyms for the word institution

      • beginning
      • commencement
      • custom
      • establishment
      • hospital
      • infirmary
      • organisation
      • organization
      • start
      • tradition

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