Definition of "institutions" []

• Plural form of institution. (noun)

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• "The founder of Rhode Island and nearly all of its leading spirits had been "spewed out of the Bay Colony," -- and the institutions which the Rhode Islanders set up, or rather, their seeming purpose to do without any _institutions_, constituted a standing grievance to the rigid disciplinarians of Massachusetts."
• "Educational Institutions, I wish to refer neither to the establishments in Bâle nor to the incalculably vast number of other scholastic institutions which exist throughout the nations of the world to-day; but I wish to refer to _German institutions_ of the kind which we rejoice in here."
• "Obama's effort to rein in banks isn't likely to hurt the largest financial institutions photo: Creative Commons/Martin H. Iran marks revolution with crackdown on protests banking system, its top central banker said on Tuesday, urging the country to work with President Barack Obama on his financial ­institutions should bear cost of taxpayers 'bailouts financial crises will be ready as soon as April, the deputy managing director of the International"