institutionalizing
Establishing as standard
Institutionalizing is the process of establishing something as a standard practice or permanent feature within an organization or society.
A company might institutionalize annual reviews; a government might institutionalize voting rights protections.
The word also means committing someone to an institution, especially a psychiatric facility: After his breakdown, his family considered institutionalizing him.
Converting into systematic code
- standardizingEstablishing uniform criteria
- legitimizingConferring official status
- ratifyingFormally validating an agreement
- sanctioningFormally approving or penalizing
enacting · systematizing · structuring · regulating · implementing · establishing · chartering · documenting
Placing within surrounding mass
- ingrainingEmbedding deeply within
- cementingFastening withite adhesive
- solidifyingBecoming rigid or fixed
- rootingActively cheering someone on
anchoring · perpetuating · consolidating · reinforcing · deepening · fortifying · fixing · securing
Carrying out an act
- hospitalizingPlacing in medical facility
- sectioningDividing into segments
- detainingHolding in custody
- admittingConfessing or granting entry
incarcerating · asylum · psychiatric · involuntary · custodial · commitment · residential · facility
Relating to building framework
- organizationalRelating to structured arrangement
- governmentalOf or relating to authority
- societalOf organized human groups
- culturalRelating to shared traditions
political · corporate · educational · religious · economic · bureaucratic · hierarchical · administrative
codifying
Converting into systematic code
- standardizingEstablishing uniform criteria
- legitimizingConferring official status
- ratifyingFormally validating an agreement
sanctioning · enacting · systematizing · structuring · regulating · implementing · establishing · chartering · documenting · credentialing
embedding
Placing within surrounding mass
- ingrainingEmbedding deeply within
- cementingFastening withite adhesive
- solidifyingBecoming rigid or fixed
rooting · anchoring · perpetuating · consolidating · reinforcing · deepening · fortifying · fixing · securing · ensconcing
committing
Carrying out an act
- hospitalizingPlacing in medical facility
- sectioningDividing into segments
- detainingHolding in custody
admitting · incarcerating · asylum · psychiatric · involuntary · custodial · commitment · residential · facility · sanatorium
structural
Relating to building framework
- organizationalRelating to structured arrangement
- governmentalOf or relating to authority
- societalOf organized human groups
cultural · political · corporate · educational · religious · economic · bureaucratic · hierarchical · administrative · regulatory
- formalizingformalizing, officializing, establishing, codifying, standardizing
- approvalsapproved, approve, authorizing, certification, endorsing
institutionalizinginformalizing
Making less formal
deregulating · loosening · casualizing · improvising · decentralizing
institutionalizingdeinstitutionalizing
Ending systematic confinement practices
abolishing · dismantling · dissolving · eliminating · deconstructing
institute, institution, constitution, constitute, destitute, prostitute, restitution, substitution, constitutes