Synonym: asylum, creation, establishment, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, insane asylum, instauration, introduction, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, origination, psychiatric hospital. Similar words: institutional, constitution, constitutional, constitute, installation, instruction, instructional, instinct. Meaning: [‚ɪnstɪ'tuːʃn /-'tju-] 
n. 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.
n. 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. 
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31. We want this to be like a home, not an institution.
32. I was determined not to put my mother in an institution.
33. Unbelievably, our Government are now planning to close this magnificent institution.
34. They heard sob-stuff from one man about his deprived childhood in an institution.
35. Many people with dementia would rather remain at home than be placed in an institution.
36. Some nationalists would like to depict the British monarchy as a purely English institution.
37. The tradi-tionalist influences within the navy marked it off as a rather old-fashioned institution.
38. The Brookings Institution has assembled a collection of essays from foreign affairs experts.
39. The government built a charitable institution for the education of young children.
40. His grand design was to connect up every academic institution in the world.
41. There was never an official institution of censorship in Albania.
42. Recently escaped from the state mental institution.
43. By this time he had become an enduring institution.
44. Crazy Rita is in a mental institution.
45. She's a volunteer docent at the Smithsonian Institution.
46. It would be damaging to the institution.
47. As a social institution, marriage transcends all individuals.
48. Stop in and say good-bye to another local institution.
49. Sentence: three years' detention in a young offender institution.
50. Clearly the Community is not a democratic institution.
51. The councils have the power to attach terms and conditions to the provision of funds to any institution.
52. Trading in ivory had become an institution in this part of Africa.
53. What Brown inherited when he became speaker in December 1980 was an institution well down the road toward gridlock.
54. This is the pub as social institution[sentencedict .com], so much more than just a place for drinking.
55. But it has not sought to gain the backing of an official international financial institution.
56. Severe lipaemia in an undiagnosed diabetic will usually resolve with the institution of insulin therapy and effective diabetic control.
57. The institution of bishops he defends as convenient and of long standing, rather than as based on Apostolic succession.
58. In addition there is one other institution which symbolizes the continuing dependency of agricultural workers upon local farmers - the tied cottage.
59. Language is a social institution of a kind; and self-evidently it is open to all sorts of change.
60. In retrospect it is clear to me that my arrival at Salomon marked the beginning of the end of that hallowed institution.
More similar words: institutional, constitution, constitutional, constitute, installation, instruction, instructional, instinct, situation, practitioner, evolution, pollution, execution, resolution, question, distribution, prosecution, contribution, inspection, in question, revolutionary, construction, suggestion, distinction, demonstration, questionnaire, out of the question, investigation, beyond question, prestidigitation.