Definition of "institutional"
institutional
adjective
comparative more institutional, superlative most institutional
Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or organized along the lines of an institution.
Quotations
Swindon's Model Lodging House was originally designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The 1847-1849 recession led to delays and plan revisions, including smaller windows in the finished structure, resulting in a more 'institutional' appearance.
2022 September 7, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railway towns and a social revolution”, in RAIL, number 965, page 55, photo caption
noun
plural institutionals
A client that is an organization rather than an individual.
Quotations
Even during the distribution of the public capital assets "free of charge", the case of Czech Republic showed, that the restructuring of property, esp. in the concentrated institutional form of "institutionals", leads to a conservation of some essential dysfunctions of the past system.
2012, Peter Koslowski, Business Ethics in East Central Europe, page 13
(politics) A Chilean senator who is appointed by the president for a term of eight years.
Quotations
The institutionals include four former senior military commanders, one from each of the four branches of the armed forces, selected by the National security Council (Cosena); two former Supreme Court judges and one former comptroller-general, selected by the Supreme Court; and one former interior minister and a former university rector, selected by the president.
2000, Country Forecast: Chile, page 6
A community where the majority of inhabitants work at an institution (as opposed to industry or trade), or one such inhabitant.
Quotations
It was found that marketing centers and institutionals had superior purchasing power to industrial and balanced centers, and in turn the number of airline passengers generated and the number of registered general aviation aircraft were also greater for the marketing and institutional classifications .
1962, Robert Horonjeff, The Planning and Design of Airports, page 121
Quotations
The first group, the so-called "institutionals," represents the poorest and most desperate women living in or near the urban centers. These women, often unmarried and frequently with no family support or employment, turned in their pregnant despair to public or private charity institutions.
2016, Judith Walzer Leavitt, Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950, page 74
(sociology) An individual whose sense of self is based on institutionalized values and standards, as opposed to their tastes and impulses.
Quotations
If vocational counseling to help the individual find his peculiar niche has elements of the impulse conception of self, the idea that a person can make of himself what he will, that one chooses a task and then works at it, is the view of institutionals.
1981, Gregory Prentice Stone, Harvey A. Farberman, Social Psychology Through Symbolic Interaction, page 206