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Having been established as an institution.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- It is very difficult to get bureaucracies to abandon their institutionalized practices.
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Having been committed to an institution, such as a prison or an insane asylum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Once a potential employer learns that you've been institutionalized, you can forget about getting the job.
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Having become dependent after a long time in, and unable to function outside of an institution, especially a prison.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
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simple past and past participle of institutionalize
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
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officially placed in or committed to a specialized institution
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- had hopes of rehabilitating the institutionalized juvenile delinquents
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: institutionalised
Antonyms: noninstitutionalized
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adjective satellite
Meaning 6
given the character of an institution or incorporated into a structured and usually well-established system
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- institutionalized graft
- institutionalized suicide as practiced in Japan
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: institutionalised
Antonyms: none provided
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