transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪnstɪtju:ʃənəlaɪz, AM -tu:- ]
( institutionalizes, institutionalizing, institutionalized)
Note: in BRIT, also use 'institutionalise'
1.
If someone such as a sick, mentally ill, or old person is institutionalized , they are sent to stay in a special hospital or home, usually for a long period.
She became seriously ill and had to be institutionalized for a lengthy period.
...institutionalized kids with medical problems.
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed , V-ed
• in‧sti‧tu‧tion‧ali‧za‧tion
Institutionalization was necessary when his wife became both blind and violent.
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2.
To institutionalize something means to establish it as part of a culture, social system, or organization.
The goal is to institutionalize family planning into community life...
In the first century there was no such thing as institutionalized religion.
VERB : V n , V-ed
• in‧sti‧tu‧tion‧ali‧za‧tion
...the institutionalization of social change.
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