Meaning of zombie institution | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of zombie business.
2. Synonym of zombie organization.
3. An institution (custom or practice) that has lost its relevance or meaning.
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see zombie, institution.

Examples

“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.”

“The rewards for going along to get along serve the zombie institution.”

“Leading realists thus predicted that after 1990 the Alliance would collapse or become a zombie institution, that is, surviving in name only, given that the existential military threat melted away after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact (Waltz 1993, p. 76).”

“Commonly, the image of death has taken hold operationally, with the existence of the G20 at most being equated as a 'zombie' institution continuing to operate, but without signs of influential life.”

“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?”

“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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