institutions

US: /ˌɪnstɪˈtuʃənz/
UK: /ˌɪnstɪtjˈuːʃənz/


English Vietnamese dictionary


institution /,insti'tju:ʃn/
  • danh từ
    • sự thành lập, sự lập
    • sự mở (một cuộc điều tra)
    • cơ quan; trụ sở cơ quan
    • thể chế
    • (thông tục) người quen thuộc, người nổi danh; tổ chức quen thuộc, tổ chức nổi danh
    • (tôn giáo) tổ chức hội (từ thiện...)

Thesaurus dictionary


n.
1 establishing, establishment, forming, formation, origination, founding, foundation, installation, introduction, creation, organization:
Who was responsible for the institution of cricket as a national pastime?
2 establishment, institute, academy, foundation, university, college, school:
He attended an institution of higher learning after leaving the army.
3 hospital, medical centre, sanatorium or US also sanitarium, home, asylum:
They spent their last days in an institution.
4 custom, tradition, habit, practice, routine, rule, order (of the day), code (of practice); doctrine, dogma:
Throwing the coxswain into the river after the race has become an institution.

Concise English dictionary


institutions‚ɪnstɪ'tuːʃn /-'tju-
noun
+an organization founded and united for a specific purpose
+an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated
+a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society
+the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
+a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person