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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
institutional
adjective
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institutional/organizational barriers
▪ Institutional barriers limit what can be achieved.
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■ NOUN
arrangement
▪ What we see, however, are different forms of organization, alternative institutional arrangements.
▪ Chapter 8 will examine forms of institutional arrangements regarding such matters as executive-legislative relations, party system, and citizen democracy.
▪ Various institutional arrangements both support and reproduce cooperation such as continuous consultation with the union and the practice of delegated decision-making.
▪ This principle alone required institutional arrangements, regulation and supervision.
▪ Evidence of closer and longer-term institutional arrangements between business interests and local government at this time is far more limited.
▪ The scheme is designed to further personal development and to encourage reflection on institutional arrangements.
▪ Consequently, the best institutional arrangement to use depends on the nature of the transaction.
▪ It is impossible to make any such comparison without knowing what the institutional arrangements of the system would be.
care
▪ We re-interviewed those principal carers whose relatives, etc had moved to permanent institutional care by the end of one year.
▪ These are all special categories that need institutional care.
▪ The avoidance of unnecessary institutional care by assessment of need for care.
▪ As we saw in Chapter 2 approximately 5 percent of those aged 65 + live in some form of institutional care.
▪ Only then will the extra community care money be released - provided the forecast expenditure on institutional care is reasonably on course.
▪ They can help those who have become ill, infirm, disturbed, or aged with a minimum of institutional care.
▪ Apart from considerations of cost, the changing forms of family life also supported a move to substitute family care rather than institutional care.
▪ In institutional care there should be no place for such people.
change
▪ Whatever institutional changes are made in the Labour Party, tradition dies hard.
▪ Political development under colonialism is conceived of as institutional change within the political system.
▪ Few institutional changes have occurred since 1979.
▪ Its outlook will remain uniquely short-term, pragmatic, suspicious of grandiose institutional change.
▪ In fact it took some time to make effective progress, inpart because of institutional changes.
▪ The early weeks of the new era saw far-reaching institutional change throughout the country.
▪ The arbiter model has been developed to analyse major institutional changes in post-war liberal democracies by Poulantzas' concept of authoritarian statism.
▪ Both of these committees called for institutional change, and the Dooge called for the creation of an Internal Market.
client
▪ Such work is undertaken primarily for large institutional clients and is discussed more fully elsewhere.
▪ Soviero has been the manager of high-yield bond accounts for institutional clients since 1994.
context
▪ It should be particularistic and small scale and concerned with the immediate problems of a given institutional context.
▪ It locates bureaucracy in a class context rather than in a constitutional or even institutional context.
customer
▪ Taylor Inc. routinely failed to pass discounts along to as many as 15, 000 institutional customers.
design
▪ Thus, institutional design appears to be an important intervening variable between socio-economic variables and democratic performance.
▪ Hollington Architects Inc., specializes in institutional design, such as schools and churches.
▪ Each study examines the effects of a specific configuration of some or all of the components of institutional design on democratic performance.
▪ The third proposition is, therefore, that institutional design is crucial for competition policy.
development
▪ Any differences in institutional developments as they apply to specific groups. 4.
▪ This institutional development has strengthened those features of the system which foster a community of political-military interest at policy-making levels.
▪ The generation of the project proposal was thus one part of a volatile and multifaceted institutional development.
▪ Doctrinal self-definition was accompanied by institutional development.
form
▪ He observed how institutional forms of control by society had virtually disappeared.
framework
▪ And what type of institutional framework would it require?
▪ Some of these freedoms can only be realized in a collective, institutional framework.
▪ Fully to appreciate the operation of the substantive rules of criminal law requires some appreciation of this complex institutional framework.
▪ Political power could create the institutional framework necessary for free criticism, including things like laboratories, periodicals and congresses.
▪ This institutional framework was imitated at all but the lowest levels of the party hierarchy.
▪ This means that, for most academics at least, research and teaching require an institutional framework.
▪ In particular, the cost of bankruptcy depends on the legal and institutional framework for handling it.
▪ The treaty would be administered through an institutional framework.
investment
▪ The growth of institutional investment is regarded as being of particular significance in this respect.
▪ Financial industry executives said the proposed taxes would have dampened institutional investment, particularly by foreigners.
▪ The capital structure of Newco in the context of institutional investment and bank borrowings has been considered in 4.7 above.
▪ Michael Taylor, head of institutional investment at Threadneedle, thinks Nasdaq could have 30 per cent to fall.
investor
▪ There is some evidence that institutional investors are now more prepared to increase the allocations to gilts in their portfolios.
▪ Eaton said large institutional investors today are putting more pressure on publicly traded companies to increase their returns.
▪ Other approved lenders include many of the large institutional investors.
▪ Imagine, for example, you are an institutional investor managing several billion dollars.
▪ Trading involves only a handful of traders who make the markets and a relatively closed universe of institutional investors.
▪ The salesmen spoke with institutional investors such as pension funds, insurance companies, and savings and loans.
▪ With portfolio insurance the objective of the institutional investor or fund manager is to maintain the value of a portfolio.
▪ By the 1990s, large and institutional investors had abandoned the search for security and demanded instead fat returns on investments.
level
▪ First, academic institutions have made only moderate progress in developing internal processes which encourage self-reflection and self-criticism at the institutional level.
▪ These are at the individual level, at the institutional level and, unfortunately, at the ideological level.
▪ At the institutional level, there exists a great deal of inertia once commitments to projects and programs have been made.
life
▪ Such cultural diversity we should expect to find expressed in the structures and institutional life of the churches.
money
▪ We had got to a size where we needed an injection of institutional money and there were people who wanted to retire.
▪ The only exception was an institutional money fund that failed because of derivatives in 1994.
▪ Indeed, some of the largest institutional money managers catering to wealthy individual investors advertise tax-related investment strategies based on computer models.
power
▪ For the first time in years, the conservatives have taken clear control by exercising their vast institutional power.
▪ The institutional power managers place the good of the company over self-interest.
racism
▪ The institutional racism model thus overlaps with an equal opportunities model which demands self-conscious meritocracy in spirit and in procedures.
▪ Black faculty members also accused the university of institutional racism and creating a hostile work environment.
▪ Syer discusses how deterministic thinking is one of the aspects of institutional racism, affecting all subject areas.
▪ Indeed, the experience of institutional racism is one of the primary barriers to a united church.
▪ Subliminal racism is also alive and well, as is institutional racism.
▪ Examples of some of the forms of institutional racism involved in the education system have been provided earlier in this article.
▪ By making institutional racism an impossibility in theory, this son of discourse justifies it in practice.
reform
▪ Mr Segni says he resorted to referendums after more than ten years of fruitless debate within the party on institutional reform.
▪ Mrs Thatcher's greatest service to the nation may yet be the institutional reforms that take place on her departure.
▪ In his years in Number 10, he showed limited interest in social or institutional reform.
▪ Nothing was said about institutional reform.
▪ Unemployment could be reduced given proper economic management and the appropriate institutional reforms, they would claim.
review
▪ The study was approved by the institutional review board of the Mayo Clinic and all patients gave written consent.
▪ Informed consent was obtained from parents and the study was approved by the hospital institutional review board.
setting
▪ In terms of basic resources, the small staffed homes were very different to the institutional settings they replaced.
▪ In particular, these programs have been hesitant to reimburse the provider of nutrition services by independent practitioners outside standard institutional settings.
▪ When distressed, black people naturally resist accepting help in frightening institutional settings from people they do not trust.
▪ Recent studies also indicate that child abuse may occur twice as often in institutional settings as in families.
▪ Other research illustrates the kinds of cross-cultural communication problem which can arise in interviews and other institutional settings.
▪ Most of the large programs in existence at the present time tend to favor institutional settings.
▪ Distinct packages of skills and approaches to work, may, however, survive but perhaps in new institutional settings.
▪ He found that support mechanisms and institutional settings are not key factors affecting research advance.
shareholder
▪ It would comprise representatives of all the City institutions, but particularly institutional shareholders and lenders.
▪ The panel would provide a point of reference for institutional shareholders, other City institutions and auditors to air concerns.
▪ There had been no suggestion from the company's bankers or major institutional shareholders to date that he should do so.
▪ Ferranti was unchanged at 57.5p following a meeting with institutional shareholders.
▪ However, there was a significant number of private and institutional shareholders.
▪ It has been brought forward to 5 April to allow institutional shareholders to enjoy the 25 percent grossing-up for the last time.
▪ Do well-informed diversified institutional shareholders need such a signal?
structure
▪ Why should his death, however tragic, threaten irreparable damage to an institutional structure of such proven strength?
▪ Educational systems and institutional structures require considerable adjustment in order to support this process.
▪ The Soviet institutional structure produces decisiveness once decision is taken; it is not one which produces decision quickly.
▪ Their boundaries might overlap; or leave some areas in a curious limbo unattached to any part of the institutional structure.
▪ The changing institutional structure of the state is a historical artefact of class struggle which follows a simple pattern.
▪ The managerial emolument and incentives discussion in section 3.3 starts in general terms and then moves to questions of alternative institutional structures.
▪ Thus in chapters 4 to 6 we discuss alternative institutional structures.
▪ The present institutional structure is based on regulations contained in the 1964 Police Act.
support
▪ The question of institutional support is important but this is sometimes stronger in its rhetoric than its substance.
▪ Trading, never heavy, was at least well up to the post-crash average although there was little sign of institutional support.
▪ As Desmond King has argued, ultimately ideological and institutional support are the best protectors of social citizenship rights.
▪ There may be no alternative institutional support.
▪ Identity maintenance needs additional institutional support, especially when the family fails.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Institutional

Institutional \In`sti*tu"tion*al\, a.

  1. Pertaining to, or treating of, an institution or institutions; as, institutional legends.

    Institutional writers as Rousseau.
    --J. S. Mill.

  2. Instituted by authority.

  3. Elementary; rudimental.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
institutional

1610s, from institution + -al (1).

Wiktionary
institutional

a. 1 Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or organized along the lines of an institution. 2 Instituted by authority. 3 elementary; rudimentary.

WordNet
institutional
  1. adj. relating to or constituting or involving an institution; "institutional policy"

  2. organized as or forming an institution; "institutional religion" [ant: noninstitutional]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "institutional".

This approach will require close collaboration among researchers, their institutional biosafety officials and committees, and providers of these agents.

If germinally anti-social persons are kept humanely segregated during their lifetime, instead of being turned out after a few years of institutional life and allowed to marry, they will leave no descendants, and the number of congenital defectives in the community will be notably diminished.

Parker was a heister by profession, an institutional robber who stole from banks or jewellery stores or armored cars.

On the contrary, as I will try to demonstrate in some detail, these impure terms that mark the difference between the literary and the nonliterary are the currency in crucial institutional negotiations and exchange.

The floor of the corridor was surfaced with a nonslip synthetic rubber material, and the walls were institutional green.

When the dogmas about Islam cannot serve, not even for the most Panglossian Orientalist, there is recourse to an Orientalized social-science jargon, to such marketable abstractions as elites, political stability, modernization, and institutional development, all stamped with the cachet of Orientalist wisdom.

In theory to allow children and adolescents undistracted time for their studies and premilitary training, although she suspected it was just as much a simple case of institutional inertia: the system worked well and nobody had reason enough to push for a change.

The institutional reforms which he favors all of them look in the direction of destroying what remains of judicial, executive, or legislative independence.

The long hallway down the center of the building opened to room after room of seafoam green walls, institutional gray linoleum tile floors, and rickety old beds that squeaked every time the side rails were raised or lowered.

I suspect that for Kraus religious and political affiliations, and such labels as revolutionary and reactionary, were external tokens and institutional manifestations of spiritual and moral commitments, and that shifts in his religious and political identification were efforts on his part to express those commitments in particular historical exigencies.

They were not altogether dissatisfied with the situation, being pleased to learn that their failsafe system worked, and they would, they assured us, see to it that he was given institutional care.

Soon after, a decision was made that Celia would telephone her institutional acquaintances next day and, if they seemed cooperative, the Research Department would take it from there.

In virtue of historical factors, social, institutional and technological, having to do with the development of a given world, the male, from the cradle, is programmed with antimasculine values, taught to distrust his instincts, to hate and fear them, and, ideally, to revel in his de-masculinization.

There would be no institutional memory at the television studio or newspaper or magazine about other, similar claims previously shown to be scams and bamboozles.

The flashlight your mother name-tagged with masking tape and packed for you special pans around the institutional room: the drop-ceiling, the gray striped mattress and bulged grid of bunksprings above you, the two other bunkbeds another matte gray that won't return light, the piles of books and compact disks and tapes and tennis gear.