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To set up, establish or initiate (something)
“So, as the new season begins, your favorite correspondent has decided to turn over a new leaf and institute some new policies.”
To instate or appoint someone in a given role or position
“And after my dispositions are complied with, I institute him as the legitimate heir of the remainder of all my goods.”
To enact or establish legally or legislatively
To issue, establish or apply as a charge, fine or penalty
To arrange into groups or into a systematic order
To initiate legal action against someone
To cause (something) to conform to a standard
A formal, usually lengthy, systematic discourse on some subject
Plural for an organization, typically founded to promote a cause
“I was starting to think, from reading the journal, that I had joined an institute for computer boffins.”
Plural for a college or institution of learning
“While teaching at the Institute of Technology, he refined his ideas about design theory.”
(obsolete) Plural for that which is instituted, established, or fixed, such as a law or rule
“They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy.”
Plural for the action of establishing something or being established
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