"institutionalize" meaning in English

See institutionalize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˌɪnstɪˈtjuːʃənəˌlaɪz/ Forms: institutionalizes [present, singular, third-person], institutionalizing [participle, present], institutionalized [participle, past], institutionalized [past]
Etymology: From institutional + -ize. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|institutional|ize}} institutional + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} institutionalize (third-person singular simple present institutionalizes, present participle institutionalizing, simple past and past participle institutionalized)
  1. to establish as a normal practice Translations (to establish as a normal practice): institucionalitzar (Catalan), 體制化 /体制化 (tǐzhìhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), 制度化 (zhìdùhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), institutionalisere (Danish), institutionaalistaa (Finnish), vakiinnuttaa (Finnish), institutionnaliser (French), institucionalizar (Galician), institutionalisieren (German), istituzionalizzare [feminine] (Italian), институттандыру (instituttandyru) (Kazakh), institucionalizuoti (Lithuanian), zinstytucjonalizować (Polish), institucionalizar [feminine] (Portuguese), instituționaliza (Romanian), институционализи́ровать (institucionalizírovatʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Russian), institucionalizar (Spanish), isatatag (Tagalog), інституціоналізува́ти (instytucionalizuváty) [imperfective, perfective] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-institutionalize-en-verb-XmJ7kE1P Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ize Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 46 54 Disambiguation of 'to establish as a normal practice': 98 2
  2. to commit a person to confinement in an institution Translations (to commit a person to confinement in an institution): institutionalisere (Danish), sijoittaa laitoshoitoon (Finnish), помеща́ть в учрежде́ние закры́того ти́па (pomeščátʹ v učreždénije zakrýtovo típa) (english: no exact term exists) (Russian), yatırmak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-institutionalize-en-verb-HXP9UAx1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ize, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Kazakh translations, Terms with Lithuanian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Tagalog translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 46 54 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 40 60 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 40 60 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 29 71 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 35 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 24 76 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 35 65 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 33 67 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 35 65 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 32 68 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 31 69 Disambiguation of Terms with Kazakh translations: 25 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Lithuanian translations: 25 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 34 66 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 36 64 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 29 71 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 35 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 31 69 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 25 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Tagalog translations: 35 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 35 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 35 65 Disambiguation of 'to commit a person to confinement in an institution': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: institutionalise [Commonwealth] Derived forms: institutionalization

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "sense": "to establish as a normal practice",
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      "roman": "instytucionalizuváty",
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      "word": "інституціоналізува́ти"
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to commit a person to confinement in an institution",
      "word": "sijoittaa laitoshoitoon"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (df33d17 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.