INSTITUTE

Institute

An institute is an organisational body created for a certain purpose. Often they are research organisations created to do research on specific topics. An institute can also be a professional body.

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institute

Noun

  1. An organization founded to promote a cause
    I work in a medical research institute.
  2. An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects
  3. The building housing such an institution

Verb

  1. To begin or initiate (something); to found.
    He instituted the new policy of having children walk through a metal detector to enter school.
  2. To train, instruct.
  3. To nominate; to appoint.
  4. To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.

Adjective

  1. Established; organized; founded.


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