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institutional

 adjective
     
in‧sti‧tu‧tion‧al [usually before noun]
1 relating to an institution:
children in institutional care
2 institutional attitudes and behaviour have existed for a long time in an organization and have become accepted as normal even though they are bad:
accusations of institutional racism in the police force
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