<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>of or relating to organized establishments, foundations, societies, or the like, or to the buildings they occupy: The association offers an institutional membership discount to members of affiliated groups.</li><li>of the nature of an established organization or institution: institutional bureaucracy.</li><li>relating to or noting a policy, practice, or belief system that has been established as normative or customary throughout an institution or society, particularly as perpetuated in institutions of a public character, as schools, courts, or legislative bodies: institutional sexism in academia; institutional racism in the criminal justice system; institutional sexism in academia; institutional prejudice against members of the gay community.</li><li>characterized by the blandness, drabness, uniformity, and lack of individualized attention attributed to large institutions that serve many people: institutional food.</li><li>(of advertising) having as the primary object the establishment of goodwill and a favorable reputation rather than the immediate sale of the product.</li><li>relating to established principles or institutes, especially of jurisprudence.</li></ul>