institutionalized
/ˌɪnstɪˈtuʃənəlaɪzd/
adjective
- Placed in a facility (such as a hospital, prison, or care home) for long-term care or confinement.
- The institutionalized patients received regular medical attention.
- After years in the system, he became an institutionalized individual.
- The report highlighted the needs of institutionalized children.
- Made a standard or accepted part of a system, organization, or society.
- Institutionalized racism can be hard to eliminate because it is built into laws and customs.
- The practice of annual reviews is now institutionalized in our company.
- The holiday became an institutionalized tradition over the centuries.
- Describing a person who has become dependent on the routine and structure of an institution and has difficulty adapting to life outside it.
- The social worker helped the formerly institutionalized man learn basic life skills.
- After decades in prison, he felt institutionalized and scared of freedom.
- Long-term residents can become institutionalized and lose their ability to make independent decisions.
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