1. To move people or care arrangements away from long-term institutional care toward other settings.
2. To remove or reduce an established institutional character or basis.
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Words that belong together
- deinstitutionalize care
- deinstitutionalize patients
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The policy sought to deinstitutionalize care while expanding community support.
The account distinguished deinstitutionalizing patients from withdrawing necessary assistance.
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Word forms
- Base
- deinstitutionalize
- Past tense
- deinstitutionalized
- Past participle
- deinstitutionalized
- Present participle
- deinstitutionalizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- deinstitutionalize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are deinstitutionalizing
- Present perfect
- have/has deinstitutionalized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been deinstitutionalizing
- Past
- deinstitutionalized
- Past continuous
- was/were deinstitutionalizing
- Past perfect
- had deinstitutionalized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been deinstitutionalizing
- Future
- will deinstitutionalize
- Future continuous
- will be deinstitutionalizing
- Future perfect
- will have deinstitutionalized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been deinstitutionalizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: deinstitutionalize; deinstitutionalizes; deinstitutionalized; deinstitutionalized; deinstitutionalizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: institutional and conceptual change, philosophical orientation, qualification of recurrence and degree. Disciplines: academic writing, philosophy, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: deinstitutionalizes.
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