institutional

adjective

in·sti·tu·tion·al ˌin(t)-stə-ˈt(y)ü-sh(ə-)nəl

: of or relating to an institution

institutional knowledge

: characteristic of or appropriate to institutions

bland institutional cooking

institutional green walls

institutionally adverb

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Now, the Democratic Party’s institutional failure to focus firstly on the economic security of working families has had epic consequences. —

John Samuelsen, New York Daily News, 11 Feb. 2025 Her work is already set in motion, with upcoming projects including planning for the reinstallation of the museum’s permanent collection and serving as the institutional curator for retrospectives on artists Hayward Oubre and Willie Birch. —

Okla Jones, Essence, 11 Feb. 2025 Trump has aggressively bypassed institutional constraints, issued dozens of executive orders that sidestep established norms and laws, dismissed inspectors general, and set out to replace large swaths of the nonpartisan civil service with loyalists. —

BÁlint Madlovics, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2025 They were sold to two distributors with centers in Florida, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, which then flipped them to hotel cafes, restaurants, bakeries, caterers and institutional customers. —

David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for institutional