0 present participle of institute
1 to start or cause a system, rule, legal action, etc. to exist:
She is threatening to institute legal proceedings against the hospital.
The culmination of a decade-long process of harmonization and negotiation, this invitation symbolized the success of these countries in instituting political democracies and market economies.
One can imagine instituting a process at a hospital where any time a case moves toward litigation, the parties are encouraged to try mediation first.
Instituting privately inflicted sanctions would thus challenge fundamental assumptions about the legal system.
One may expect changes in budgets (and, hence, charge-backs to artists) based on costs of maintaining traditional point-of-sale practices and instituting online ones.
These analyses also highlight the importance of instituting air travel restrictions quickly if they are used as a part of a containment strategy.
What hidden cost of instituting markets has been ignored?
Uncontrolled hyperkalaemia, acidosis and fluid overload are usually the reasons for instituting dialysis.
Finally, we hope that the new eye-catching design for the journal will help to symbolise the changes we are instituting.
