Synonyms of instituting

instituting

verb

present participle of institute

as in establishing

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton is generally credited with instituting the women's-rights movement in 1848

Synonyms & Similar Words

• establishing
• initiating
• founding
• introducing
• creating
• pioneering
• launching
• inaugurating
• constituting
• beginning
• planting
• constructing
• starting
• organizing
• inventing
• innovating
• originating
• devising
• developing
• producing
• authoring
• setting up
• manufacturing
• concocting
• conceiving
• expanding
• thinking (up)
• enlarging
• endowing
• contriving
• subsidizing
• cooking (up)
• fabricating
• funding
• reinstituting
• fathering
• arranging
• financing
• making up
• systematizing
• reinitiating
• relaunching
• systemizing
• refounding
• putting up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• closing (down)
• abolishing
• shutting (up)
• phasing out
• ending
• stopping
• finishing
• terminating
• halting
• nullifying
• annulling
• annihilating
• winding up
• rounding (off or out)
• wrapping up

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of instituting

Countries like the United Kingdom, Singapore, Japan, and Brazil are instituting similar policies, putting pressure on players in the global energy trade to ease reliance on crude oil. — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 3 Sep. 2026

But after cops were increasingly publicly exposed for using Flock to commit crimes, the company mobilized, instituting consequential changes that inhibit the public's ability to hold rogue officers accountable. — Kenny Jacoby, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026

Then this summer, the Pentagon took another step and declared its press office a classified space — instituting a policy that journalists must be accompanied by an escort on Pentagon grounds. — ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026

The zoning amendments were removed from the August agenda, and the city’s focus instead turned to exploring the months-long legal process of instituting a moratorium. — Emily Holshouser august 4, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Aug. 2026

Following the campaign, Rome aggressively eradicated and restructured local settlements, while instituting repressive laws designed to assimilate the area into the greater empire. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 July 2026

Those policies include reducing the 40-hour week to a 32-hour week, increasing the minimum wage from $15 an hour to $30 an hour, instituting Medicare for All and the Green New Deal and providing free buses and free child care. — Dave Anderson, Baltimore Sun, 26 July 2026

But 3,000 miles away, a school district in Orange County, CA, is instituting a similar ban for the upcoming 2026-27 school year. — Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2026

Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum (VGM) has embraced this challenge head-on, instituting a yearslong collaboration with academics from leading business schools to explore how using data and analytics can improve visitors’ experiences. — Mureji Fatunde-Iloeje, ArsTechnica, 25 July 2026