Synonyms for centralize
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : sen-truh-lahyz |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɛn trəˌlaɪz |
Top 10 synonyms for centralize Other synonyms for the word centralize
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for centralize
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