institutionalized

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of or relating to someone who has been committed to an institution, such as a prison or an insane asylum

Once a potential employer learns that you've been institutionalized, you can forget about getting the job.

Simple past tense and past participle of institutionalize
of or relating to something that has been established as an institution

It is very difficult to get bureaucracies to abandon their institutionalized practices.

{s} committed to or placed in an institution; transformed into or viewed as an institution (i.e. custom, law, pattern of behavior), institutionalised
past of institutionalize
officially placed in or committed to a specialized institution; "had hopes of rehabilitating the institutionalized juvenile delinquents"
given the character of an institution or incorporated into a structured and usually well-established system; "institutionalized graft"; "institutionalized suicide as practiced in Japan
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cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
institutionalize
to establish as a normal practice
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To institutionalize something means to establish it as part of a culture, social system, or organization. The goal is to institutionalize family planning into community life In the first century there was no such thing as institutionalized religion. + institutionalization in·sti·tu·tion·ali·za·tion the institutionalization of social change
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in·sti·tu·tion·al·ize institutionalizes institutionalizing institutionalized in BRIT, also use institutionalise1. If someone such as a sick, mentally ill, or old person is institutionalized, they are sent to stay in a special hospital or home, usually for a long period. She became seriously ill and had to be institutionalized for a lengthy period. institutionalized kids with medical problems. + institutionalization in·sti·tu·tion·ali·za·tion Institutionalization was necessary when his wife became both blind and violent
institutionalize
to commit a person to confinement in an institution
institutionalize
{f} transform something into an institution (i.e. custom, law, pattern of behavior); place a person in an institution (also institutionalise)
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