institutional

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in·sti·tu·tion·al /ˌɪnstəˈtjuːʃənəl $ -ˈtuː-/ AWL adjectiveadj [usually before noun]

1 relating to an institution 社会公共机构的；机构的

children in institutional care

受福利机构照顾的儿童

2 institutional attitudes and behaviour have existed for a long time in an organization and have become accepted as normal even though they are bad 〔态度和行为因存在已久〕已形成制度的；惯例的

accusations of institutional racism in the police force

对警察队伍中已形成风气的种族主义的谴责

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institutional racism• Subliminal racism is also alive and well, as is institutional racism.• Syer discusses how deterministic thinking is one of the aspects of institutional racism, affecting all subject areas.• By making institutional racism an impossibility in theory, this son of discourse justifies it in practice.• Black faculty members also accused the university of institutional racism and creating a hostile work environment.• Examples of some of the forms of institutional racism involved in the education system have been provided earlier in this article.• Indeed, the experience of institutional racism is one of the primary barriers to a united church.• The institutional racism model thus overlaps with an equal opportunities model which demands self-conscious meritocracy in spirit and in procedures.

From Longman Business Dictionary

institutionalin·sti·tu·tion·al /ˌɪnstəˈtjuːʃənəl◂-ˈtuː-/ adjectiveadj

1involving an institution or institutions

economic and monetary union and related institutional reform of the EU

2relating to activities of financial institutions, rather than other organizations or members of the public

Most of the investment was from institutional money.

Dealers reported a fair degree of institutional buying of the shares.

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