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
His mother, whose older child suffered from intellectual disabilities and was institutionalized, died in childbirth.
James Cross, British diplomat kidnapped by Quebec separatists, dies at 99 of covid-19 | Emily Langer | January 21, 2021 | Washington PostIn order to keep employees healthy physically and mentally, media, marketing and tech companies scrambled to find way to institutionalize empathy into their cultures and new, health-focused ergonomics into their structures.
Without antidepressants, he had been institutionalized, and there was very little fun sex happening at the psychiatric facility.
It should not be surprising that some businesses fully support the Labor Department’s rule reinterpreting federal law to institutionalize and encourage the independent contractor model.
How a new regulation would let businesses avoid the law by classifying employees as independent contractors | jakemeth | October 31, 2020 | Fortune“So many kids from institutionalized settings come to us abused and neglected,” he said.
Couple Sues Over Russian ‘Bait-and-Switch’ Adoption of Disabled Kids | Tina Traster | October 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
This is what perpetuates a systemic, institutionalized rape culture.
Are you institutionalized when it comes to loving these prison guys?
20 Things You Didn’t Know About 'The Shawshank Redemption' | Bill Schulz | August 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the United States today, some 1.5 million old people have been institutionalized for medical problems.
Current federal guidelines bar gun sales only to people who have been institutionalized or “adjudicated as a mental defective.”
The original drama which re-enacts an emotionally important experience is institutionalized into a cult.
Reconstruction in Philosophy | John DeweyThat this has been the deliberate policy of institutionalized Religion no candid student can deny.
The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition | Upton SinclairIn this last sentence we have summed up the fundamental fact about institutionalized religion.
The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition | Upton SinclairThat is the control you exercise over persons who are institutionalized in prison or some sort of hospital?
Warren Commission (4 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyLater these gifts became institutionalized and turned into a form of tax.
A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] | Wolfram Eberhard
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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