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Adjective: institutionalised
Usage: Brit (=institutionalized)
  1. Officially placed in or committed to a specialized institution
    "had hopes of rehabilitating the institutionalised juvenile delinquents"
    - institutionalized
     
  2. Given the character of an institution or incorporated into a structured and usually well-established system
    "institutionalised graft"; "institutionalised suicide as practised in Japan"
    - institutionalized
Verb: institutionalise  `in-sti't(y)oo-shu-nu`lIz
Usage: Brit (=institutionalize)
  1. Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
    "After the second episode, she had to be institutionalised"
    - commit, institutionalize, send, charge

See also: institution, institutional

Type of: transfer

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