Meanings
- not comparableIn an institutional manner.
Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.
2013 February 6, Hideo Otake, “Revising the Interpretation of the Japanese Economy”, in Michio Muramatsu, Frieder Naschold, editors, State and Administration in Japan and Germany: A Comparative Perspective on Continuity and Change, page 319 - not comparableThroughout an institution.
Around a third of both Black and White respondents said they believed the opposition Labour Party to be institutionally racist.
2020 June 22, Rob Picheta, “Most Black British people think the Conservative Party is institutionally racist, CNN poll finds”, in CNNSynonyms: policywise
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbThroughout an institution.
Origin
- Englishinstitution
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishinstitutional
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishinstitutionally
From institutional + -ly.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French institutionnellement
- institutionnellementin an institutional manner
Polish instytucjonalnie
- instytucjonalniein an institutional manner
Spanish institucionalmente
- institucionalmentein an institutional manner
Cite this entry
institutionally. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/institutionally
“institutionally.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/institutionally. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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