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View synonyms for centralized

centralized

[ sen-truh-lahyzd ]

adjective

  1. controlled from one place:

    The individual police departments will transition to the centralized dispatch system beginning in October.

    After years of opting for top-down regulatory approaches, the new administration has decided to move toward a less centralized form of government oversight.

  2. existing in one place, or being the center point of a network: The system allows users to record subscriber complaints in a single database, creating a centralized source of information to assist us in pinpointing systematic delivery problems.

    Each computer has a twisted-pair cable that runs to a centralized hub.

    The system allows users to record subscriber complaints in a single database, creating a centralized source of information to assist us in pinpointing systematic delivery problems.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of centralize ( def ).
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  • un·cen·tral·ized especially British, un·cen·tral·ised adjective
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Example Sentences

The veteran leftist’s drive to centralize economic decisionmaking has angered local business leaders and discouraged foreign investment.

From Time

By picking a strong partner and using a content hub to centralize the asset repository for their content marketing, they managed to cut processing times for the app from 83 days to just 33 and print from 58 days to 40.

From Digiday

For example, a content hub can help a business manage every aspect of content operations — from streamlining content planning and creation workflows to centralizing digital assets and getting teams in sync.

From Digiday

Rather than focus on building large centralized plants, why not distribute solar power across a bunch of rooftops?

Under a more centralized system the place would have been ungovernable.

But Tocqueville in fact distinguished between two kinds of centralization: centralized administration and centralized government.

Centralized Russian power has always been in tension with what the Cossacks stood for.

We do not want to be a centralized point of failure, but we also do not want to lead our buyers into dangerous waters.

The reformers of the earlier period were not indifferent to the need for centralized organization in the banking system.

We are a republic, or rather a cluster of republics under an imperfectly centralized national government.

They had the idea of a strong, centralized Government; and more than that they had a marvellous capacity for receptivity.

The Empire had been developing upon lines which could not be made to conform to the plans for centralized parliamentary control.

The Unions are thus a branch of the government—and this government is the most highly centralized government that exists.

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