Phrase Hound found 17 phrases and 13 compound words that contain institution. The most common are listed below. Open institution in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 17
- financial institutionAn institution, such as a bank, insurance company or fund, that provides financial services for its clients or members.
- educational institutionA place where people of different ages gain an education, including preschools, childcare, elementary schools, and universities.
- academic institutionAn educational institution, dedicated to teaching and/or research.
- credit institutionthe enterprise whose primary activity is banking and credit provision
- words of institutionThe pronouncements “This is my body” and “This is my blood”, said by the celebrants at the climax of most eucharistic liturgies and held by many churches to be essential to the performance of the rite.
- mental institutionA psychiatric hospital, or the psychiatric ward of a hospital.
- memory institutionA library, museum or similar organization serving as an archive of knowledge.
- peculiar institutionslavery
- zombie institutionSynonym of zombie business: A company that requires bailouts in order to operate, or an indebted company that is able to repay the interest on its debts but not repay the principal.
- mechanics' institutionSynonym of mechanics' institute: A kind of educational establishment originally formed to provide adult education, particularly in technical subjects, to working men in Victorian-era Britain and its colonies, and often funded by local …
- institution-buildingThe process of building institutions (all senses).
- multi-institutionSynonym of multi-institutional: Involving multiple institutions.
- correctional institutionSynonym of correctional facility: A prison, reformatory, or similar institution in which people are confined for the purpose of punishment or social rehabilitation.
- young offender institutionA kind of youth detention centre
- higher institutionAn institute of higher education.
- non-institutionAlternative form of noninstitution: An organization that is not an institution.
- acquiring financial institutionAn institution that contracts with the bank and the merchant to enable credit card transactions. The acquirer deposits the credit card totals and debits the end-of-month processing fees from the merchants' accounts.
Compound words 13
- institutionaryRelating to an institution or institutions.
- reinstitutionThe act of reinstituting something.
- superinstitutionOne institution upon another, as when A is instituted and admitted to a benefice upon a title, and B instituted and admitted upon the presentation of another.
- counterinstitutionAn institution set up in opposition to another institution.
- institutionismSynonym of institutionalism: Adherence to the established religion, or to established codes of conduct.
- institutionizeSynonym of institutionalize: To establish as a normal practice.
- macroinstitutionA relatively large-scale institution
- noninstitutionAn organization that is not an institution.
- institutionalizeTo establish as a normal practice.
- institutionallyIn an institutional manner.