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• n  an organization founded and united for a specific purpose
• n  an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated
• n  a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society
  the institution of marriage
  the institution of slavery
  he had become an institution in the theater
• n  the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
• n  a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person

• He says he is staying with a friend, Salim, and not in a mental institution, as has been widely reported in America.
• No institution did more in the 20th century to further the cause of international development.
• By name and locale, Willowbrook State School seems a pleasant enough place: a teaching institution on a 400-acre bucolic tract on Staten Island in New York Harbor.

• establishment
• initiation
• founding
• foundation
• origination
• creation
• innovation
• introduction
• instauration
• mental hospital
• psychiatric hospital
• mental institution
• mental home
• insane asylum
• asylum

News & Articles

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• Courts » Utah institution processed illegal online-poker payments, Jeremy Johnson’s red-flagged accounts.
  In the mid-to-late-2000s, one of Utah’s most iconic institutions, Zions Bank, processed tens of millions of dollars of illegal online-poker payments and then assisted a Logan businessman in sending at least $150 million overseas, court documents show.
  June 26, 2013 - The Salt Lake Tribune
• End of Lockdown and Search at Grande Cache Institution
  GRANDE CACHE, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - June 25, 2013) - The lockdown and search at Grande Cache Institution initiated on June 20, 2013 has concluded. The institution has returned to normal operations.
  June 25, 2013 - Marketwire
• Smithsonian Institution signs deal with Tiburon's Romberg Center for San Francisco Bay studies
  The environmental research arm of the prestigious Smithsonian Institution has signed an agreement to team with the Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies to take the pulse of San Francisco Bay's health.
  June 21, 2013 - Marin Independent Journal

Quotes

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• Elena Kagan in The Associated Press
  The Supreme Court is a wondrous institution. But the time I spent in the other branches of government remind me that it must also be a modest one,Kagan said in the excerpts released in advance.
• David Johnston in 680 News
  Alternating between English and French, he called the office of the Governor General "an important institution." "As the representative of the Queen of Canada, who is our country's head of state, I pledge to be a stalwart defender of our...
• Mike Garrett in The Associated Press
  I apologize for any inconvenience or embarrassment this matter has caused to you and your institution,Garrett wrote in a hand-signed letter.