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English to English noun
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an organization founded and united for a specific purpose |  | source: wordnet30
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an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated | | source: wordnet30
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a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society | | Example: the institution of marriage
the institution of slavery
he had become an institution in the theater
source: wordnet30
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the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | | Example: she looked forward to her initiation as an adult
the foundation of a new scientific society
source: wordnet30
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a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person | | source: wordnet30
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The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school. | | source: webster1913
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