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Institution Important Hong People System Noun Large Organization

word institution
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noun
An institution is a large important organization such as a university, church, or bank.
...the Institution of Civil Engineers.
Class size varies from one type of institution to another.
The Hong Kong Bank is Hong Kong's largest financial institution.
An institution is a building where certain people are looked after, for example people who are mentally ill or children who have no parents .
Larry has been in an institution since he was four.
He visited various penal institutions in the United Kingdom in the late 1930s.
An institution is a custom or system that is considered an important or typical feature of a particular society or group, usually because it has existed for a long time.
I believe in the institution of marriage.
...the institution of the family.
The institution of a new system is the act of starting it or bringing it in.
There was never an official institution of censorship in Albania.
...the institution of the forty-hour week.
inflections institutions
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