INSTITUTIONAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does institutional mean? 

• INSTITUTIONAL (adjective)
  The adjective INSTITUTIONAL has 2 senses:

1. relating to or constituting or involving an institution

2. organized as or forming an institution

  Familiarity information: INSTITUTIONAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSTITUTIONAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or constituting or involving an institution

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

institutional policy

Pertainym:

institution (an organization founded and united for a specific purpose)

Derivation:

institution (an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated)

institution (a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person)

institution (an organization founded and united for a specific purpose)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Organized as or forming an institution

Context example:

institutional religion

Similar:

institutionalised; institutionalized (given the character of an institution or incorporated into a structured and usually well-established system)

uninteresting (characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative)

Antonym:

noninstitutional (not institutional)

Derivation:

institution (an organization founded and united for a specific purpose)

 Context examples 

Now, however, a multi-institutional team reports that climate and human impacts from the past influence current patterns of mammal diversity.

(Connecting the prehistoric past to the global future, National Science Foundation)

Institutional Review Boards are meant to protect the people who take part in a clinical trial.

(Institutional Review Board, NCI Dictionary)

The National Protocol, Standard Cancer Center Information Summary for Cancer Center Support Grant Application, is a multi-institutional trial in which the Cancer Center provides leadership or is a participant.

(National Protocol Standard Cancer Center Information Summary, NCI Thesaurus)

A single national Network of investigators that will perform multi-institutional clinical trials in diagnostic imaging related to cancer.

(Cooperative Trial in Diagnostic Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)

Abuse of children in a family, institutional, or other setting.

(Child Abuse and Neglect, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

"We can see this technology being used in all kinds of institutional and domestic settings," Didar says.

(Scientists Create Superbug-Resistant Self-Cleaning Surface, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The Committee advises and makes recommendations to the Director, NCI, for the oversight and integration of various planning and advisory groups serving the broad programmatic and institutional objectives of the Institute.

(Advisory Committee to the Director, NCI, NCI Thesaurus)

An infrastructure for multi-institutional clinical trials of imaging and related disciplines applied to cancer.

(American College of Radiology Imaging Network, NCI Thesaurus)

Initiative to bring together imaging experts from around the nation to perform multi-institutional clinical trials on diagnostic imaging tools related to cancer.

(Diagnostic Imaging Network, NCI Thesaurus)

The system contains reliable data on the nutrient composition of foods consumed by people; the data sets are applicable in many areas - health assessment, the formulation of appropriate institutional and therapeutic diets, nutrition education, food and nutrition training, epidemiological research on relationships between diet and disease, plant breeding, nutrition labeling, food regulations, consumer protection, and agricultural goods and products, as well as for a variety of applications in trade, research, development, and assistance.

(International Network of Food Data Systems, NCI Thesaurus)