Definition of Institution

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Institution

The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school.

Instruction; education.

The act or ceremony of investing a clergyman with the spiritual part of a benefice, by which the care of souls is committed to his charge.

That which instituted or established

Established order, method, or custom; enactment; ordinance; permanent form of law or polity.

An established or organized society or corporation; an establishment, especially of a public character, or affecting a community; a foundation; as, a literary institution; a charitable institution; also, a building or the buildings occupied or used by such organization; as, the Smithsonian Institution.

Anything forming a characteristic and persistent feature in social or national life or habits.

That which institutes or instructs; a textbook; a system of elements or rules; an institute.

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Institution Quotations

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
Groucho Marx

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
Peter Drucker

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae West

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
Lee Iacocca

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
H. L. Mencken

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Victor Hugo

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
Gloria Steinem

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
George Santayana

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
Hubert H. Humphrey

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.
Frank McCourt

Institution Translations

institution in Danish is institution
institution in Dutch is instelling
institution in German is Einrichtung
institution in Norwegian is institusjon

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