institution
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
institution/ɪnstɪˈtjuːʃn/
▶noun
- 1 a large organization founded for a particular purpose, such as a college, bank, etc.
■ an organization providing residential care for people with special needs.
■ an official organization with an important role in a country.
- 2 an established law or custom.
■ informal a well-established and familiar person or thing: he became a national institution.
- 3 the action of instituting.
'institution' also found in these Oxford entries:
abolish
- academy
- approved school
- assay office
- asylum
- at
- bachelor
- bank
- bastion
- beadle
- borstal
- BSI
- call money
- career
- chapel
- chaplain
- chest
- co-ed
- coffer
- college of education
- commandant
- commissary
- common room
- Corpus Christi
- day room
- defendant
- deinstitutionalize
- detention centre
- dormitory
- enter
- entrée
- entrepreneur
- establishment
- exchange
- external
- fit
- found
- foundation
- founder
- gazette
- genius
- governing body
- governor
- grant aid
- grant-in-aid
- home
- hospital
- house
- house of correction
- ICE
