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INSTITUTIONALISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does institutionalise mean? 

INSTITUTIONALISE (verb)
  The verb INSTITUTIONALISE has 1 sense:

1. cause to be admitted; of persons to an institutionplay

  Familiarity information: INSTITUTIONALISE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


INSTITUTIONALISE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they institutionalise  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it institutionalises  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: institutionalised  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: institutionalised  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: institutionalising  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

charge; commit; institutionalise; institutionalize; send

Context example:

he was committed to prison

Hypernyms (to "institutionalise" is one way to...):

transfer (move from one place to another)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "institutionalise"):

hospitalise; hospitalize (admit into a hospital)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

institution (the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new)

institution (a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person)


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