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单词 institutional
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Definition of institutional in English:

institutional

adjective ɪnstɪˈtjuːʃ(ə)n(ə)lˌɪnstəˈt(j)uʃ(ə)n(ə)l
  • 1Of, in, or like an institution or institutions.

    机构的;机构性的;类似机构的

    institutional care

    公共机构给予的照顾。

    an institutional investor

    机构投资者。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Most fund companies serve both institutional and individual investors.
    • One of Royal Bank's major institutional shareholders believes investors should stick with the Edinburgh-based financial giant for some time yet.
    • Research tended to be critical of police practice, whatever its institutional base.
    • Moreover, it may reduce the risk of an influenza outbreak that will disrupt daily institutional life and care.
    • All of these characteristics are said to exist in individual attitudes as well as in institutional practices.
    • Participants were also questioned regarding their institutional practices and policies related to blood wastage.
    • Of those who survive, about another 20% will end up in institutional care who weren't in that before the stroke.
    • About half of the patients in these hospitals are in long term institutional care.
    • All procedures involving animals conformed to federal and institutional animal care guidelines.
    • The real problem is how to practice your craft without institutional support.
    • It may be that institutional care is the only appropriate means by which to keep them.
    • The sale will be open to both institutional and individual investors, Great Wall said, giving no date for the proposed issue.
    • In contrast, it plans to cut the amount of red tape covering those products available only to institutional and expert investors.
    • He does, however, reflect a shift in writers' economic practices and the institutional conditions of freelance practice.
    • Caring for someone in their own home is very different from institutional care.
    • According to Kuenssberg, the company already has commitments totalling £3m from a mix of institutional and private investors.
    • Of course, it also raises issues of logistics and institutional practice patterns.
    • Institutional Biosafety Committees are the cornerstone of institutional oversight of recombinant DNA research.
    • Second, institutional repositories aim to preserve and make accessible digital content on a long-term basis.
    • As planning moved from theory to institutional practice, master plans emerged as metropolitan blueprints.
    1. 1.1 (especially of surroundings) impersonal and unappealing.
      the rooms are rather drab and institutional

      这些房间相当缺乏特色,全是一个样子。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Coupled with the bleached out grey/green institutional wasteland of the hospital, a tense and unsettling atmosphere is created.
      • It was still dull, institutional grey, with the orange Sheppard's sign on the side.
      • Jim walked warily into the drab institutional room, nodding to the inhabitant.
      • Wood boards break up the monotony of institutional metal railings.
      • The shelter's inside will be brightened up by getting rid of its institutional yellow paint.
      • It felt institutional and antiseptic and I kept sensing ghosts and shadows.
      Synonyms
      unappetizing, unpalatable, inedible, uneatable, distasteful, unsavoury, insipid, bland, tasteless, flavourless, savourless
      unappealing, uninviting, off-putting, unattractive, uninteresting, dull, unpleasant, disagreeable
      uniform, unvarying, unvaried, unchanging, monotonous, regimented
      informal wishy-washy
      dreary, dingy, dismal, gloomy, drab, colourless, grey, grim, cheerless, joyless, sombre, cold, depressing, impersonal, formal, off-putting, unwelcoming, uninviting, forbidding
      desolate, austere, severe, stark, spartan, bare, clinical, sterile
    2. 1.2 Expressed through or organized in the form of institutions.
      以机构形式表达的;以机构形式组织的
      institutional religion

      公共机构给予的照顾。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The institutional Buddhists, as I've described, they were trying to show the State how they could serve the State's interest.
      • Many people, disappointed with institutional religion, prefer to speak the language of spirituality.
      • Ironically, therefore, institutional religion is a product of secularization.
      • Today, perhaps more than ever before, religionists feel the tension between institutional faith and civil liberties.
      • There is something in the institutional church that is so much engaged in self-preservation that it is going to destroy itself.
      • Searching for proof of institutional religion in two artists who no longer practiced the faiths of their childhoods is an inexact science.
      • Here, institutional religion itself strikes one as an example at one extreme.
      • The detention of children without a coherent rationale is institutional child abuse.
      • The social group may be a formal religion or a more informal group that is not affiliated with institutional religion.
      • The alienation between institutional religion and the art world has been mutually reinforcing for over a century.
      • Here, Chris focuses on what Weber called instrumental rationality, as exemplified in institutional religion.
      • The ideas of tradition and continuity are prominent in the third quotation, and they are used to defend institutional religion.
      • The age in which institutional religion holds appeal is passing away.
      • In 1974, Don Yoder defined ‘folk religion’ as existing alongside but apart from institutional religion.
      • Could institutional religion have outlived its usefulness?
      • Indeed, Jandoo said that most large organisations are guilty of institutional racism.
      • Nor is it critique of institutional religion - as if church hypocrisy or narrow dogma were keeping out the living God.
      • Stepping back or getting out of institutional religion is quite an experience.
      • His criticisms offer examples of what generally happens in institutional religion.
      • Slavery was an institutional given in ancient times, and continued to be that in almost the entire world through the eighteenth century.
      Synonyms
      organized, established, bureaucratic, accepted, orthodox, conventional, procedural, prescribed, set, routine, customary, formal, systematic, systematized, methodical, businesslike, ready, orderly, coherent, structured, regulated
      informal establishment
    3. 1.3 Established as a convention or norm in an organization or culture.
      institutional racism

      公共机构给予的照顾。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • I think institutional sexism is a really intractable issue on Wall Street.
      • Both are particularly known for their work on institutional corruption as it affects government and politics.
      • Jay said that for years there was an undeniable culture of institutional sexism.
      • The media of course has an institutional bias against good news.
      • The same cannot always be said for electric utilities, which are prone to conservatism and institutional inertia.
      • My concern is that in adopting the term 'gender equality' we implicitly deny that there is systemic, institutional discrimination against women.
      • When 6 players test positive it is not an "individual problem" it's a systemic institutional problem that starts at the top.
      • Affirmative action addresses entrenched company behaviours and helps to highlight institutional hiring biases.
      • Some of these cultures are due to national behaviours but some are also due to ingrained institutional or corporate behaviours.
      • The moral blindness and institutional prejudice of those who worked the apparatus of apartheid shocks me still.
  • 2(of advertising) intended to create prestige rather than immediate sales.

    (广告)营造声誉而非为销售额的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Institutional advertising ‘sells’ the company's brand, mission, reputation and values.

Derivatives

  • institutionalism

  • nounɪnstɪˈtjuːʃənəlɪz(ə)mˌɪnstəˈt(j)uʃ(ə)n(ə)lˌɪzəm
    • In emphasizing the ‘rules of the game,’ the new institutionalism underplays the importance of power, position, and prestige in manipulating or ignoring those rules.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • We have no such bricks-and-mortar institutionalism to counter, nor a safe structure within which to slowly develop.
      • One adaptation of an approach that was originally applied to the study of domestic politics that Hix drew upon was new institutionalism.
      • In the methodological part of the book, Hodgson attempts to develop a response to the challenge that Marx, historicism and institutionalism left with us, and which has been ignored by more recent work in social science.
      • On the other hand, one can consider liberalism or liberal institutionalism as an alternative to realism and neorealism.

Rhymes

constitutional, evolutional, substitutional

Definition of institutional in US English:

institutional

adjectiveˌɪnstəˈt(j)uʃ(ə)n(ə)lˌinstəˈt(y)o͞oSH(ə)n(ə)l
  • 1Of, in, or like an institution or institutions.

    机构的;机构性的;类似机构的

    institutional care

    公共机构给予的照顾。

    an institutional investor

    机构投资者。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Caring for someone in their own home is very different from institutional care.
    • In contrast, it plans to cut the amount of red tape covering those products available only to institutional and expert investors.
    • Research tended to be critical of police practice, whatever its institutional base.
    • Moreover, it may reduce the risk of an influenza outbreak that will disrupt daily institutional life and care.
    • Participants were also questioned regarding their institutional practices and policies related to blood wastage.
    • According to Kuenssberg, the company already has commitments totalling £3m from a mix of institutional and private investors.
    • Of those who survive, about another 20% will end up in institutional care who weren't in that before the stroke.
    • He does, however, reflect a shift in writers' economic practices and the institutional conditions of freelance practice.
    • All procedures involving animals conformed to federal and institutional animal care guidelines.
    • The real problem is how to practice your craft without institutional support.
    • It may be that institutional care is the only appropriate means by which to keep them.
    • One of Royal Bank's major institutional shareholders believes investors should stick with the Edinburgh-based financial giant for some time yet.
    • Of course, it also raises issues of logistics and institutional practice patterns.
    • Institutional Biosafety Committees are the cornerstone of institutional oversight of recombinant DNA research.
    • The sale will be open to both institutional and individual investors, Great Wall said, giving no date for the proposed issue.
    • Most fund companies serve both institutional and individual investors.
    • All of these characteristics are said to exist in individual attitudes as well as in institutional practices.
    • Second, institutional repositories aim to preserve and make accessible digital content on a long-term basis.
    • About half of the patients in these hospitals are in long term institutional care.
    • As planning moved from theory to institutional practice, master plans emerged as metropolitan blueprints.
    1. 1.1 Unappealing or unimaginative.
      不吸引人的;缺乏想像力的;千人一面的
      institutional chocolate-colored paint
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It felt institutional and antiseptic and I kept sensing ghosts and shadows.
      • It was still dull, institutional grey, with the orange Sheppard's sign on the side.
      • Coupled with the bleached out grey/green institutional wasteland of the hospital, a tense and unsettling atmosphere is created.
      • The shelter's inside will be brightened up by getting rid of its institutional yellow paint.
      • Wood boards break up the monotony of institutional metal railings.
      • Jim walked warily into the drab institutional room, nodding to the inhabitant.
      Synonyms
      unappetizing, unpalatable, inedible, uneatable, distasteful, unsavoury, insipid, bland, tasteless, flavourless, savourless
      dreary, dingy, dismal, gloomy, drab, colourless, grey, grim, cheerless, joyless, sombre, cold, depressing, impersonal, formal, off-putting, unwelcoming, uninviting, forbidding
    2. 1.2 Expressed or organized in the form of institutions.
      以机构形式表达的;以机构形式组织的
      institutional religion

      公共机构给予的照顾。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • His criticisms offer examples of what generally happens in institutional religion.
      • Many people, disappointed with institutional religion, prefer to speak the language of spirituality.
      • Stepping back or getting out of institutional religion is quite an experience.
      • Here, Chris focuses on what Weber called instrumental rationality, as exemplified in institutional religion.
      • Searching for proof of institutional religion in two artists who no longer practiced the faiths of their childhoods is an inexact science.
      • Could institutional religion have outlived its usefulness?
      • Nor is it critique of institutional religion - as if church hypocrisy or narrow dogma were keeping out the living God.
      • Indeed, Jandoo said that most large organisations are guilty of institutional racism.
      • Here, institutional religion itself strikes one as an example at one extreme.
      • The age in which institutional religion holds appeal is passing away.
      • The alienation between institutional religion and the art world has been mutually reinforcing for over a century.
      • The ideas of tradition and continuity are prominent in the third quotation, and they are used to defend institutional religion.
      • Today, perhaps more than ever before, religionists feel the tension between institutional faith and civil liberties.
      • In 1974, Don Yoder defined ‘folk religion’ as existing alongside but apart from institutional religion.
      • The detention of children without a coherent rationale is institutional child abuse.
      • The social group may be a formal religion or a more informal group that is not affiliated with institutional religion.
      • Ironically, therefore, institutional religion is a product of secularization.
      • The institutional Buddhists, as I've described, they were trying to show the State how they could serve the State's interest.
      • Slavery was an institutional given in ancient times, and continued to be that in almost the entire world through the eighteenth century.
      • There is something in the institutional church that is so much engaged in self-preservation that it is going to destroy itself.
      Synonyms
      organized, established, bureaucratic, accepted, orthodox, conventional, procedural, prescribed, set, routine, customary, formal, systematic, systematized, methodical, businesslike, ready, orderly, coherent, structured, regulated
    3. 1.3 Established as a convention or norm in an organization or culture.
      institutional racism

      公共机构给予的照顾。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Some of these cultures are due to national behaviours but some are also due to ingrained institutional or corporate behaviours.
      • When 6 players test positive it is not an "individual problem" it's a systemic institutional problem that starts at the top.
      • Jay said that for years there was an undeniable culture of institutional sexism.
      • The moral blindness and institutional prejudice of those who worked the apparatus of apartheid shocks me still.
      • The media of course has an institutional bias against good news.
      • Affirmative action addresses entrenched company behaviours and helps to highlight institutional hiring biases.
      • The same cannot always be said for electric utilities, which are prone to conservatism and institutional inertia.
      • I think institutional sexism is a really intractable issue on Wall Street.
      • Both are particularly known for their work on institutional corruption as it affects government and politics.
      • My concern is that in adopting the term 'gender equality' we implicitly deny that there is systemic, institutional discrimination against women.
    4. 1.4 (of advertising) intended to create prestige rather than immediate sales.
      (广告)营造声誉而非为销售额的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Institutional advertising ‘sells’ the company's brand, mission, reputation and values.
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