institutionaladj/ˌɪn.stɪˈtjuː.ʃə.nəl/

• 1

  Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or organized along the lines of an institution.

  • Swindon's Model Lodging House was originally designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The 1847-1849 recession led to delays and plan revisions, including smaller windows in the finished structure, resulting in a more 'institutional' appearance.
  • The main concerns for young Indonesians are quality of life, corruption, institutional integrity and the environment, including air pollution, said Abigail Limuria, co-founder of Bijak Memilih, an independent, youth-led movement providing information on political parties, issues and candidates to voters.
• 2

  Instituted by authority.

  • institutional ruling
• 3

  Elementary; rudimentary.

• 4

  Arising from the practice of an institution.

  • There must be an unequivocal acceptance of the problem of institutional racism and its nature before it can be addressed

institutionalnoun/ˌɪn.stɪˈtjuː.ʃə.nəl/

• 1

  A client that is an organization rather than an individual.

  • Few public relations people have learned to communicate effectively with the funds, meet their needs, and maintain a balance between institutionals and individual round lot holders.
  • At a later stage one could imagine some institutionals occasionally or even systematically engaging in law suits against companies or their directors to influence the company's conduct.
• 2

  governmentpoliticsA Chilean senator who is appointed by the president for a term of eight years.

  • The institutionals include four former senior military commanders, one from each of the four branches of the armed forces, selected by the National security Council (Cosena); two former Supreme Court judges and one former comptroller-general, selected by the Supreme Court; and one former interior minister and a former university rector, selected by the president.
  • The time series is very short for the post-1998 transition in the Senate, but if the few votes are indicative, they show that at least a few of the institutionals are much more willing to join legislative majorities than before.
• 3

  A community where the majority of inhabitants work at an institution (as opposed to industry or trade), or one such inhabitant.

  • In any time period, Marketing Centers and Institutionals will have a higher per capita index of airline passengers than either Industrial or Balanced communities.
  • The "marketing" centers consisted of the metropolitan districts that were above average in wholesale sales but low in industrial employment. The "institutionals" were low in both trade and industrial employment.
• 4

  An institutionalized person.

  • And I hope you can work it out where 'institutionals' can have rights too.
  • We have no groups that do not include ex-institutionals.
• 5

  human-sciencessciencessocial-scienceA person whose sense of self is based on institutionalized values and standards, as opposed to their tastes and impulses.

  • If vocational counseling to help the individual find his peculiar niche has elements of the impulse conception of self, the idea that a person can make of himself what he will, that one chooses a task and then works at it, is the view of institutionals.
  • For institutionals the self is revealed through adherence to a high standard, especially in spite of adverse conditions.