Usually means: Establish as a norm or standard.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. institutionalize: Merriam-Webster
  2. institutionalize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. institutionalize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. institutionalize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. institutionalize: Vocabulary.com
  6. Institutionalize, institutionalize: Wordnik
  7. institutionalize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. institutionalize: Wiktionary
  9. institutionalize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. institutionalize: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. institutionalize: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. institutionalize: Dictionary.com
  13. institutionalize: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Institutionalize: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. institutionalize: Rhymezone
  16. institutionalize: FreeDictionary.org
  17. institutionalize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. institutionalize: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. institutionalize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. institutionalize: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. institutionalize: Legal dictionary
  4. institutionalize: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. institutionalize: Encyclopedia

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  to establish as a normal practice
verb:  to commit a person to confinement in an institution

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