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DECENTRALIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they decentralize ... he / she / it decentralizes
Past simple: decentralized
Past participle: decentralized
-ing form: decentralizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make less central
Example:
After the revolution, food distribution was decentralized
Synonyms:
decentralise; decentralize; deconcentrate
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "decentralize" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "decentralize"):
federalise; federalize (put under the control and authority of a federal government)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
centralise; centralize (make central)
Derivation:
decentralization (the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments)
decentralization (the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts)
