Usually means: Remove individuals from institutional care.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word deinstitutionalize:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. deinstitutionalize: Merriam-Webster
  2. deinstitutionalize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deinstitutionalize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deinstitutionalize: Wiktionary
  5. deinstitutionalize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. deinstitutionalize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. deinstitutionalize: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. deinstitutionalize: Dictionary.com
  9. deinstitutionalize: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. deinstitutionalize: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. deinstitutionalize: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (deinstitutionalize)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To perform deinstitutionalization upon; to free from an institution or from dependence upon an institution.

Similar:
deinstitutionalise, dehospitalize, decolonialize, decolonize, deconstitutionalize, disincarcerate, denationalize, deindustrialize, decommercialize, deconvert, more...

Opposite:
institutionalize, re-institutionalize, re-establish

Types:
close, shut down, terminate, abolish, eliminate, get rid of, more...

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Similar:
deinstitutionalise, dehospitalize, decolonialize, decolonize, deconstitutionalize, disincarcerate, denationalize, deindustrialize, decommercialize, deconvert, more...

Opposite:
institutionalize, re-institutionalize, re-establish

Types:
close, shut down, terminate, abolish, eliminate, get rid of, more...



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