institution

[Example Sentences]:
1. The institution of political polling has come in for a great deal of criticism of late.
2. Your financial institution is not required by law to make you whole.
3. At no time was the Catholic Church as an institution in Cuba involved.
4. The military is the only organized institution in the country.
5. We are an administrative institution, we do not refuse applications, she said.
6. Perhaps the EU is, for them, just another bureaucratic institution trying to claim a purpose.
7. The institution has changed around it.

[Antonyms]abrogation

[Synonyms]establishment, investiture, custom