institution meaning
EN
[ˌɪnstɪˈtjuːʃən] [ˌɪnstɪˈtuːʃən] 
US WInstitution
- Institutions are "stable, valued, recurring patterns of behavior." As structures or mechanisms of social order, they govern the behaviour of a set of individuals within a given community.
- The term "institution" is commonly applied to customs and behavior patterns important to a society, as well as to particular formal organizations of the government and public services.
- ^ Huntington 1965, p. 394.
- ^ "Social Institutions". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ^ Durkheim, Émile [1895] "The Rules of Sociological Method" 8th edition, trans. Sarah A. Solovay and John M. Mueller, ed. George E. G. Catlin (1938, 1964 edition), pp. 45
FR institution 
- NounPLinstitutionsSUF-tion
- An established organisation, especially one dedicated to education, public service, culture or the care of the destitute, poor etc.
- The building which houses such an organisation.
- A custom or practice of a society or community, marriage for example.
- (informal) A person long established with a certain place or position.
- The act of instituting.
- (obsolete) That which institutes or instructs; a textbook or system of elements or rules.
- There is another manuscript, of above three hundred years old, [ …] being an institution of physic. — Evelyn.
- An established organisation, especially one dedicated to education, public service, culture or the care of the destitute, poor etc.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- “The institutions whose primary mission is teaching — the masters and community colleges and bachelors colleges, are slowly disinvesting in the teaching function,” Ms. Wellman said.
- In Amerikkka, this movement is evident from efforts to control the institutions serving and located within Black communities.
- Keeping this power apart from the Fed also prevents it from being drawn into the political maelstrom of whether to lend funds to a weakened institution or to seize it for an orderly winddown.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- There are some brilliant new approaches being created at grass roots level, but it is taking a long time for them to filter up to the larger institutions.
- This contractual approach reaccentuated the element of consent in monogamy, which had always been central to its prominence as a public institution.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of institution in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "institution" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.