institution

Definition:
1. An organization founded and united for a specific purpose.
2. An establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated.
3. A custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society.
4. The act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new.
5. A hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person.

Use 'institution' in a sentence:

1. The new institutions do not encroach on political power.
2. By now, the fighting centered on the Mendicity Institution.
3. The widespread availability of such recordings has thus brought about a crisis in the institution of the traditional classical concert.
4. Applicants in technical assignments must have reached the last year of their studies in a technical institution.
5. May Day has become a venerable institution.
6. These large institutions make — and change — the rules to suit themselves.
7. The Faerie Queene can be said the first great poetic celebration in English of the institution of marriage.
8. The creation of any new institution should fully address and properly handle its relations vis-à-vis the existing mechanisms.
9. "With my institution and teaching load, I don't have postdocs and grad students," says Terry McGlynn, a tropical biologist at California State University, Dominguez Hills.
10. The government promised to implement a new system to control financial loan institutions.
11. Larry has been in an institution since he was four.
12. Institutions that do not meet the standards will not be accredited for teacher training.
13. "We realized in the mid-1970s that it was missing," says Effie Kapsalis, head of the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
14. Children capered around in front of the Smithsonian Institution.
15. Since it's a government operated institution, things don't move very fast.
16. He first attended the private Delfos Institution.
17. The government wanted to reform the institutions, to shake up the country.
18. You must know him—he's an institution around here!
19. Let me start from the kind of institution that you probably know relatively little about—commercial real estate.
20. There was never an official institution of censorship in Albania.
21. It is vital that once an institution claims to be particularly good at something, it must live up to it.
22. They're quite an institution in these parts.
23. However, outside of these institutions the black thinking woman is looked upon as a freak.
24. Figures show that more and more females are delaying marriage until well into womanhood and, in some cases, forsaking the institution altogether.
25. Many institutions exchange information by hand because of incompatible computer systems.
26. The government created a second such institution called—and they gave it a boy's name with a nickname—Freddie Mac.
27. Instead of each province having its own list of approved drugs, bureaucracy, procedures and limited bargaining power, all would pool resources, work with Ottawa, and create a national institution.
28. The country's economic plight is strangling its scientific institutions.
29. If you are traveling on a temporary or exchange student visa, you may be able to arrange for health insurance through your employer or institution.
30. Scientific institutions have been reluctant to take corrective action.
31. I use the term "low-tier" cautiously, because GSU is a well-regarded research institution that attracts high-quality professors and faculty from all over the country.
32. The reason behind all this confusion is that there never has been a proper vocational guidance in our educational institution.
33. The principle of market forces was applied to some of the country's most revered institutions.
34. A deal between the two powerful institutions would have created a banking monolith.
35. We're trying to establish linkages between these groups and financial institutions.
36. Congress as an institution scores low in public opinion polls.
37. The woman will be confined to a mental institution.
38. Britain is about to propose changes to some institutions.
39. Class size varies from one type of institution to another.
40. The old institutions are cracking.
41. I believe in the institution of marriage.
42. We want this to be like a home, not an institution.
43. Bernard works at the same institution as Arlette.
44. Some institutions still have a strong bias against women.
45. The institutions have realised they need to change their culture to improve efficiency and service.
46. I have a professor on my staff here as liaison with our higher education institutions.
47. Financial institutions act as intermediaries between lenders and borrowers.
48. This degree programme is fully accredited by the Institution of Electrical Engineers.
49. The closeness this system cultivates is reinforced by the institution of "advisory" classes.
50. The European Parliament is not an institution which excites interest in voters.
51. Many people living in institutions have lost their sense of self.
52. You must know him ─ he's an institution around here!
53. The college has close links with many other institutions.