{
    "term": "institution",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a large important organization that has a particular purpose, for example a university or bank",
            "sensetop": "institution of something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The deal is backed by one of the country's largest **financial institutions**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He has worked as a visiting lecturer for various **educational institutions**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The system is targeted mainly at academic and research institutions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the Smithsonian Institution"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The region boasts several institutions of higher education.",
                    "contextForm": "institution of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The College is one of the most prestigious medical institutions in the country."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We need to create institutions that benefit our community."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a course at an institution of higher education"
                },
                {
                    "text": "cultural institutions such as the Danish Institute"
                },
                {
                    "text": "examination procedures within educational institutions"
                },
                {
                    "text": "young people who attend higher-education institutions"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Education"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["central", "large", "major"],
                "verb + institution": ["build", "create", "found"],
                "preposition": [
                    "at a/​the institution",
                    "in institution",
                    "within institution"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a hospital, prison or other building where people are made to stay and are cared for",
            "labels": "(usually disapproving)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They had him committed to an institution."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We want this to be like a home, not an institution."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In the 1960s, he ended up in a psychiatric institution."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most people with dementia would rather remain at home than be placed in an institution."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was released from the state institution where she had been confined for four years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The state built institutions for those who were considered insane."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He wanted to save them from being locked away in an institution for delinquents."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["mental", "correctional", "penal"],
                "verb + institution": ["build", "be admitted to", "be placed in"],
                "preposition": ["at institution", "in institution", "institution for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a custom or system that has existed for a long time among a particular group of people",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He claimed this threatened ‘the sacred institution of marriage’."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Fish and chips became a **national institution** in Britain."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Football is a national institution in this country."
                },
                {
                    "text": "American laws once protected the institution of slavery."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These changes threaten some of our most cherished institutions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These values are embedded in mainstream social institutions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "cultural institutions such as religious and legal codes"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Parliament remains the central institution of the constitution of the United Kingdom."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They argue for the reform of existing political institutions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the central institutions of the nation's constitution"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They are studying ways to reform government institutions."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["national", "cultural", "economic"],
                "verb + institution": ["threaten", "undermine", "weaken"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "the act of starting or introducing something such as a system or a law",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the institution of new safety procedures"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "a person who is well known because they have been in a particular place or job for a long time",
            "labels": "(informal, humorous)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "You must know him—he's an institution around here!"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌɪnstɪˈtjuːʃn/",
                "audio": "in/institution/institution__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌɪnstɪˈtuːʃn/",
                "audio": "in/institution/institution__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in senses (3) and (4)): via Old French from Latin institutio(n-), from the verb instituere, from in- ‘in, towards’ + statuere ‘set up’. Sense (1) dates from the early 18th cent."
}