zombie institution

Definitions

1. 1

   Synonym of zombie business.

   • 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.
2. 2

   Synonym of zombie organization.

   • That is what it is like to learn in a zombie institution: thinking long-gone, and only the admin jobs remaining.
   • The rewards for going along to get along serve the zombie institution.
3. 3

   An institution (custom or practice) that has lost its relevance or meaning.

   • In the words of Ulrich Beck, the church may be considered another example of a 'zombie institution', like family, class and neighborhood.
   • These statistics are, for some, indicative of how processes of detraditionalization and individualization have made marriage a "zombie” institution.
   • It is in this context that Ulrich Beck can ask whether the contemporary family is a 'zombie institution', which is 'dead and still alive': Ask yourself what actually is a family nowadays? What does it mean?
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   1. 4

      Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

      Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see zombie, institution.

      • Trying to orient the self that my ass was busy trying to save as it hauled me through the corridors of this bloody zombie institution .

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