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{
"term": "institution",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a large important organization that has a particular purpose, for example a university or bank",
"sensetop": "institution of something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The deal is backed by one of the country's largest **financial institutions**."
},
{
"text": "He has worked as a visiting lecturer for various **educational institutions**."
},
{
"text": "The system is targeted mainly at academic and research institutions."
},
{
"text": "the Smithsonian Institution"
},
{
"text": "The region boasts several institutions of higher education.",
"contextForm": "institution of something"
},
{
"text": "The College is one of the most prestigious medical institutions in the country."
},
{
"text": "We need to create institutions that benefit our community."
},
{
"text": "a course at an institution of higher education"
},
{
"text": "cultural institutions such as the Danish Institute"
},
{
"text": "examination procedures within educational institutions"
},
{
"text": "young people who attend higher-education institutions"
}
],
"topics": ["Education"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["central", "large", "major"],
"verb + institution": ["build", "create", "found"],
"preposition": [
"at a/the institution",
"in institution",
"within institution"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a hospital, prison or other building where people are made to stay and are cared for",
"labels": "(usually disapproving)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "They had him committed to an institution."
},
{
"text": "We want this to be like a home, not an institution."
},
{
"text": "In the 1960s, he ended up in a psychiatric institution."
},
{
"text": "Most people with dementia would rather remain at home than be placed in an institution."
},
{
"text": "She was released from the state institution where she had been confined for four years."
},
{
"text": "The state built institutions for those who were considered insane."
},
{
"text": "He wanted to save them from being locked away in an institution for delinquents."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["mental", "correctional", "penal"],
"verb + institution": ["build", "be admitted to", "be placed in"],
"preposition": ["at institution", "in institution", "institution for"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a custom or system that has existed for a long time among a particular group of people",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He claimed this threatened ‘the sacred institution of marriage’."
},
{
"text": "Fish and chips became a **national institution** in Britain."
},
{
"text": "Football is a national institution in this country."
},
{
"text": "American laws once protected the institution of slavery."
},
{
"text": "These changes threaten some of our most cherished institutions."
},
{
"text": "These values are embedded in mainstream social institutions."
},
{
"text": "cultural institutions such as religious and legal codes"
},
{
"text": "Parliament remains the central institution of the constitution of the United Kingdom."
},
{
"text": "They argue for the reform of existing political institutions."
},
{
"text": "the central institutions of the nation's constitution"
},
{
"text": "They are studying ways to reform government institutions."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["national", "cultural", "economic"],
"verb + institution": ["threaten", "undermine", "weaken"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "the act of starting or introducing something such as a system or a law",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the institution of new safety procedures"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "a person who is well known because they have been in a particular place or job for a long time",
"labels": "(informal, humorous)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "You must know him—he's an institution around here!"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌɪnstɪˈtjuːʃn/",
"audio": "in/institution/institution__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌɪnstɪˈtuːʃn/",
"audio": "in/institution/institution__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in senses (3) and (4)): via Old French from Latin institutio(n-), from the verb instituere, from in- ‘in, towards’ + statuere ‘set up’. Sense (1) dates from the early 18th cent."
}