(~s, centralizing, ~d)
Note: in BRIT, also use 'centralise'
To ~ 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 ~ their operations...
The economy of the times made it difficult to support ~d rule.
VERB: V n, V-ed
centralization
Nowhere in Britain has bureaucratic centralization proceeded with more pace than in Scotland.
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