zombie institution
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.81 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
noun
An institution (custom or practice) that has lost its relevance or meaning.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see zombie, institution.
Example Sentences
- "The problem is aggravated even further by the absence of any reliable mechanism to close down zombie institutions before they can inflict too much damage on other parties."
- "I do not think that any major U.S. bank is currently a zombie institution. They are all lending, they are all active, and they are all viable."
- "The first thing it says is: Do not practice discretionary forbearance, turning a blind eye in the vain hope that a failing firm's red ink will happily turn to black, that a zombie institution will come back to life, that toxic assets will detoxify themselves."
- "If a bank's NW_E declines through zero, it becomes a "zombie” institution."
- "In my youth, sad to say, my closest encounter with a zombie institution seemed to be the Department of Motor Vehicles, where employees dulled by low expectations slowly and sullenly served frustrated citizens under pallid fluorescent lights."
- "That is what it is like to learn in a zombie institution: thinking long-gone, and only the admin jobs remaining."