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institute

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of institute

1 a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest

  • founded an institute to combat the cruel treatment of animals
Synonyms of institute

association, board, brotherhood, chamber, club, college, congress, consortium, council, fellowship, fraternity, guild (also gild), institution, league, order, organization, society, sodality
Words Related to institute

collective, commune, community, cooperative

alliance, bloc, camp, coalition, partnership

body, cadre, group

circle, clan, clique, coterie, junta, junto, klatch (also klatsch), lot, set

crew, outfit, party, squad, team

branch, chapter, local

faithful, fold, membership

sisterhood, sorority

cabal, camarilla, camorra, confederacy, conspiracy

band, gang, ring

cartel, combine, syndicate

2 a public organization with a particular purpose or function

  • a scientific institute researching a cure for cancer
Synonyms of institute

establishment, foundation, institution
Words Related to institute

body, collective, group

corporation, enterprise

charity, philanthropy

think tank

institute

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of institute

to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of

  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton is generally credited with instituting the womenʼs-rights movement in 1848
Synonyms of institute

begin, constitute, establish, found, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, introduce, launch, pioneer, plant, set up, start
Words Related to institute

author, father, originate

conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), create, devise, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture, produce, think (up)

construct, put up

develop, enlarge, expand

endow, finance, fund, subsidize

arrange, organize, systematize, systemize

refound, reinitiate, reinstitute, relaunch
Near Antonyms of institute

abolish, annihilate, annul, nullify

end, finish, halt, stop, terminate

round (off or out), wind up, wrap up
Antonyms of institute

close (down), phase out, shut (up)

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