instituting

Putting into place

Instituting is the present participle of institute, meaning to establish, set up, or begin something formally.

Organizations institute policies, governments institute reforms, individuals institute legal proceedings.

The word implies deliberate creation of something meant to persist: The company is instituting new safety protocols.

They're instituting changes across all departments.

establishing

founding

Creating an organization originally

launching · authorizing · commencing · ratifying · sanctioning · mandating · ordaining · legislating · chartering · pioneering

beginning

commencement

Act of starting

genesis · outset · dawn · kickoff · onset · advent · emergence · birth · creation · debut

inauguration

ceremony

Formal event marking occasions

induction · convocation · oath · proclamation · coronation · enthronement · commissioning · dedication · christening · unveiling

formalization

codification

Organizing rules into system

structuring · legalization · proceduralization · formulation · documentation · normalization · bureaucratization · protocol · methodology · conventionalizing

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establishment vs. abolition

institutingabolishing

Formally ending something

terminating · ending · abrogating · discontinuing · eliminating

formalization vs. informalization

institutingderegulating

Reducing governmental oversight

informalizing · loosening · relaxing · deconstructing

action vs. inaction

institutingneglecting

Failing to attend to

ignoring · avoiding · deferring · delaying · postponing

Phrases
Family

institution, institutional, institutions, institutionalize, institutionalized, institutionally, institutionalization, institutionalizing

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