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1. Oxford Dictionary

   institution

   • IPA[ˌɪnstɪˈtjuːʃn]

   英式

   • n.
     an organization founded for a religious, educational, professional, or social purpose；an established official organization having an important role in a society, such as the Church or parliament

   • noun: institution, plural noun: institutions

2. • 釋義

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. an organization founded for a religious, educational, professional, or social purpose an academic institution a certificate from a professional institution 同義詞 organization, establishment, institute, foundation, centre, ... 更多academy, school, college, university, conservatory, seminary, centre of learning, seat of learning, society, association, federation, group, circle, fellowship, body, league, union, alliance, guild, consortium, concern, corporation
   • ▪ an established official organization having an important role in a society, such as the Church or parliament the institutions of democratic government
   • ▪ a large company or other organization involved in financial trading City institutions
   • ▪ derogatory a place where people are confined or are cared for on account of age, disability, or mental illness she has always been included in family life and not hidden away in an institution a penal institution 同義詞 home, residential care
   • 2. an established law or practice the institution of marriage 同義詞 practice, custom, phenomenon, fact, procedure, ... 更多convention, usage, tradition, rite, ritual, fashion, use, habit, wont, method, system, routine, way, policy, idea, notion, concept, rule, law, modus operandi, formalpraxis
   • ▪ a well-established and familiar person or custom he soon became something of a national institution
   • 3. the action of instituting something a delay in the institution of proceedings 同義詞 installation, instatement, induction, investiture, inauguration, ... 更多introduction, swearing in, initiation, ordination, consecration, anointing, enthronement, coronation, crowning, appointment, putting in, creation, initiation, launch, launching, start, starting, beginning, setting in motion, putting in motion, getting under way, getting going, getting off the ground, instigation, setting up, inauguration, founding, foundation, establishment, organization, activation, actuation, generation, origination, formalcommencement反義詞 dismissal, defrocking, halting, cancellation, ending