institutionals

Noun

institutional (plural institutionals)

1. A client that is an organization rather than an individual.
   • Few public relations people have learned to communicate effectively with the funds, meet their needs, and maintain a balance between institutionals and individual round lot holders.1968, The Public Relations Journal - Volume 24, page 3
2. A Chilean senator who is appointed by the president for a term of eight years.
   • The institutionals include four former senior military commanders, one from each of the four branches of the armed forces, selected by the National security Council (Cosena); two former Supreme Court judges and one former comptroller-general, selected by the Supreme Court; and one former interior...2000, Country Forecast: Chile, page 6
3. A community where the majority of inhabitants work at an institution (as opposed to industry or trade), or one such inhabitant.
   • In any time period, Marketing Centers and Institutionals will have a higher per capita index of airline passengers than either Industrial or Balanced communities.1948, United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration, Airport Planning: Economic character of communities, page 13
4. An institutionalized person.
   • And I hope you can work it out where 'institutionals' can have rights too.1977, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons, page 100
5. A person whose sense of self is based on institutionalized values and standards, as opposed to their tastes and impulses.
   • If vocational counseling to help the individual find his peculiar niche has elements of the impulse conception of self, the idea that a person can make of himself what he will, that one chooses a task and then works at it, is the view of institutionals.1981, Gregory Prentice Stone, Harvey A. Farberman, Social Psychology Through Symbolic Interaction, page 206

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