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

See also: institution, institutional

Type of: transfer

Antonym: noninstitutionalized

Encyclopedia: Institutionalized

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