- connected with a large important organization, for example a university or bank
- institutional investors
Oxford Collocations DictionaryInstitutional is used with these nouns:- bargaining
- barrier
- care
- …
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- (sometimes disapproving) in or like a place where people are sent to live and be cared for, for example a hospital, prison or special school
- institutional care
- The hotel rooms are rather drab and institutional.
- (usually disapproving) established as part of the normal systems, practices, etc. of an organization, society or culture
- institutional racism
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