decentralizing
present participle ofdecentralize
decentralize
verb[IorT]
(UKusuallydecentralise)uk/ˌdiːˈsen.trə.laɪz/us/ˌdiːˈsen.trə.laɪz/tomovethecontrolof anorganizationorgovernmentfrom asingleplaceto severalsmallerones:
We decentralizedouroperationslastyearandopenedseveralregionaloffices.
Moderntechnologyhas made iteasyfor us to decentralize.
Opposite
centralize
Managing and organizing
- admin
- administer
- administration
- anti-bureaucracy
- bronze command
- coordinated
- fixer
- get up
- getyouract togetheridiom
- gold command
- have/getyourshit togetheridiom
- marshal
- mobilize
- party planning
- project-manage
- rationalization
- recentralization
- remobilization
- scrum
- staging
Examplesofdecentralizing
decentralizing
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The city authorities attempted to overcome problems of communication following raids bydecentralizingoffices, establishing sub-organizations in the suburbs to co-ordinate relief within local communities.
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These reforms consisted indecentralizingthe responsibility for water supply from the state to the municipal level and in creating a separate regulatory framework.
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Economists thus emphasizedecentralizingeconomic decision-making authority from state organizations to individual enterprises.
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This perception of the role of market prices corresponds exactly with their role indecentralizingdecisions in a market economy.
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Thus, a major sector organization observed that thedecentralizingpressures on collective wage negotiations meant that 'fewer firms will need organizations to give them advice about collective bargaining'.
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Commuter suburbs were developing and commerce wasdecentralizingoutside the old city centre.
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I ask him to tell us how he is going to carry out the agreed obligation of decongesting,decentralizingand redeveloping big towns unless there is a national authority.
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This point is in agreement with the rapporteur's idea ofdecentralizingthe information centres, to make it easy to make contact even with people who live far from the capitals.
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After all, it is no more than a human tendency to try to avoiddecentralizinguntil you yourself know exactly what the machine which you are controlling can do.
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I want to do so on the ground that this measure is not only notdecentralizing, it is not even leaving thestatus quoas it was.
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Executives and managers face a constant tension between centralizing anddecentralizinginformation technology for their organizations.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This includes implementing clean, renewable solutions anddecentralizingenergy systems.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Since the 1990s, there is a strongdecentralizingtendency within the national parties, along with the growing national relevance of province-level parties and alliances.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The focus of his campaign wasdecentralizingthe city's government and bringing together its racially polarized population.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Experiments had also been tried with restructuring the administrative regions for education or partlydecentralizingthe responsibility of education to the provinces.
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