transcription, транскрипция: [ sentrəlaɪz ]
( centralizes, centralizing, centralized)
Note: in BRIT, also use 'centralise'
To centralize a country, state, or organization means to create a system in which one central group of people gives instructions to regional groups.
In the mass production era multinational firms tended to centralize their operations...
The economy of the times made it difficult to support centralized rule.
VERB : V n , V-ed
• cen‧trali‧za‧tion
Nowhere in Britain has bureaucratic centralization proceeded with more pace than in Scotland.
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