Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To remove the status of an institution from.
- transitive verb To release (a mental health patient, for example) from an institution for placement and care in the community.
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- verb transitive To perform
deinstitutionalization upon; to free from aninstitution or from dependence upon an institution.
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Examples
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Maria Burdette, a district manager for Cura Hospitality, the dining services provider that's been working with the Phoebe homes, said it's important to '' deinstitutionalize '' such facilities so residents have more freedom in how they live.
unknown title 2009
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The movement to remove mental patients from the horrors of state hospitals in the '70s and place them in group homes echoes in the arguments against our public schools and the need to "deinstitutionalize" students, moving them into charter schools.
Marc Epstein: The Education Reformers' End Game Marc Epstein 2011
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The movement to remove mental patients from the horrors of state hospitals in the '70s and place them in group homes echoes in the arguments against our public schools and the need to "deinstitutionalize" students, moving them into charter schools.
Marc Epstein: The Education Reformers' End Game Marc Epstein 2011
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To deinstitutionalize the public housing, all the units—social, workforce, and market-rate—are built and managed by the private sector, rather than by a municipal housing agency.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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To deinstitutionalize the public housing, all the units—social, workforce, and market-rate—are built and managed by the private sector, rather than by a municipal housing agency.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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To deinstitutionalize the public housing, all the units—social, workforce, and market-rate—are built and managed by the private sector, rather than by a municipal housing agency.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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Senator Henry Jacksons Subcommittee on National Policy Machinery had urged that the incoming president deinstitutionalize and humanize the NSC.
In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009
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Senator Henry Jacksons Subcommittee on National Policy Machinery had urged that the incoming president deinstitutionalize and humanize the NSC.
In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009
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Senator Henry Jacksons Subcommittee on National Policy Machinery had urged that the incoming president deinstitutionalize and humanize the NSC.
In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009
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Senator Henry Jacksons Subcommittee on National Policy Machinery had urged that the incoming president deinstitutionalize and humanize the NSC.
In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009
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