1. Make a practice or arrangement an enduring part of how an organization or society operates.
2. Place a person in an institution that provides continuing care or supervision.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- institutionalize reform
- institutionalize a practice
On the page
The charter institutionalized consultation rather than leaving it to each director’s discretion.
Regular peer review helped institutionalize a culture of methodological criticism.
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Word forms
- Base
- institutionalize
- Past tense
- institutionalized
- Past participle
- institutionalized
- Present participle
- institutionalizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- institutionalize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are institutionalizing
- Present perfect
- have/has institutionalized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been institutionalizing
- Past
- institutionalized
- Past continuous
- was/were institutionalizing
- Past perfect
- had institutionalized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been institutionalizing
- Future
- will institutionalize
- Future continuous
- will be institutionalizing
- Future perfect
- will have institutionalized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been institutionalizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: institutionalize; institutionalizes; institutionalized; institutionalized; institutionalizing 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: analysis, explanation, qualification. Disciplines: general academic writing. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: institutionalizes.
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