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Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or organized along the lines of an institution.
- Swindon's Model Lodging House was originally designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The 1847-1849 recession led to delays and plan revisions, including smaller windows in the finished structure, resulting in a more 'institutional' appearance.
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Instituted by authority.
- institutional ruling
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Pertaining to the policies and practices of an institution, organization or government.
- There must be an unequivocal acceptance of the problem of institutional racism and its nature before it can be addressed
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Elementary; rudimentary.
institutional
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Level B1
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A client that is an organization rather than an individual.
- Few public relations people have learned to communicate effectively with the funds, meet their needs, and maintain a balance between institutionals and individual round lot holders.
- At a later stage one could imagine some institutionals occasionally or even systematically engaging in law suits against companies or their directors to influence the company's conduct.
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A Chilean senator who is appointed by the president for a term of eight years.
- The time series is very short for the post-1998 transition in the Senate, but if the few votes are indicative, they show that at least a few of the institutionals are much more willing to join legislative majorities than before.
- While the "institutionals" certainly have not voted as a bloc with the Right in all situations, in general terms they have been a reliable ally for this sector.
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A community where the majority of inhabitants work at an institution (as opposed to industry or trade), or one such inhabitant.
- In any time period, Marketing Centers and Institutionals will have a higher per capita index of airline passengers than either Industrial or Balanced communities.
- The "marketing" centers consisted of the metropolitan districts that were above average in wholesale sales but low in industrial employment. The "institutionals" were low in both trade and industrial employment.
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An institutionalized person.
- And I hope you can work it out where 'institutionals' can have rights too.
- We have no groups that do not include ex-institutionals.
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A person whose sense of self is based on institutionalized values and standards, as opposed to their tastes and impulses.
- For institutionals the self is revealed through adherence to a high standard, especially in spite of adverse conditions.
- For the institutionals, hypocrisy consists of failing to live up to one's standards.