Antonyms for centralize

Grammar : Verb

Spell : sen-truh-lahyz

Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɛn trəˌlaɪz

Definition of centralize

Origin : 1795, "to bring to a center;" 1800, "come to a center," from central + -ize, on model of French centraliser (1790). A word from the French Revolution. Related: Centralized; centralizing.
Government should have a central point throughout its whole periphery. The state of the monthly expences amounted to four hundred millions; but within these seven months, it is reduced to one hundred and eighty millions. Such is the effect of the centralization of government; and the more we centralize it, the more we shall find our expenses decrease. [Saint-Just, "Discourse on the State of the Finances"]

verb concentrate, draw toward a point

Example sentences :

Now, all the signs of the times indicate the necessity to centralize.
Extract from : « The Ontario High School Reader » by A.E. Marty

This is an evil which has crept in with the tendency to centralize the schools.
Extract from : « Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, December 1898 » by Various

Understand me, Sir, I do not seek to centralize, but to nationalize.
Extract from : « Charles Sumner; his complete works, volume 18 (of 20) » by Charles Sumner

His object was to purify French, and, as it were, to centralize it.
Extract from : « A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance » by Joel Elias Spingarn

Chamberlain in vain urged defense and political policies designed to centralize power in London.
Extract from : « The Canadian Dominion » by Oscar D. Skelton

No people ever existed, who watched more narrowly the existence of power, and its innate tendency to centralize, and usurp.
Extract from : « An Address, Delivered Before the Was-ah Ho-de-no-son-ne or New Confederacy of the Iroquois » by Henry R. Schoolcraft

None of the reforms of Ferdinand and Isabella was so efficient in restoring order and none did more to centralize power.
Extract from : « A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 » by Henry Charles Lea

This tendency to centralize brewing operations became more and more marked with each succeeding decade.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 » by Various

This measure was strongly opposed by Jefferson, and its passage had a marked effect on our system tending to centralize authority.
Extract from : « Hidden Treasures » by Harry A. Lewis

And now that we have got so far, Mr. X, I should like to centralize the attention of this quite friendly gathering on yourself.
Extract from : « The Great Adventure » by Arnold Bennett

Synonyms for centralize

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