decentralize
/diːˈsɛntrəlʌɪz
/(also decentralise)
verb [with object] (often as adjective decentralized)
1Transfer (authority) from central to local government: Canada has one of the most decentralized governments in the world...
- In short-term regimes, the need to shift production goals rapidly makes decentralized authority difficult.
- If there is no way for the man on the spot to make use of this sort of information, which would be available to a central planner, then there may be no advantage in decentralizing decision-making authority.
- It will centralise rather than decentralise power.
1.1Move departments of (a large organization) away from a single administrative centre to other locations: new technology allows companies to decentralize large factories [no object]: he argues that giant corporations must decentralize...
- To execute on so many fronts, he has decentralized the organization and delegated a lot of decision-making.
- "Upward pressure for retail space in prime locations and decentralised shopping malls is particularly evident.
- This was part of the bank's move to decentralise its operations.
Derivatives
decentralist
- Some may be traditional anarchists, some economic-political decentralists, some socialists, ecologists, democrats, liberals, conservatives, whatever.
- The Canadian Greens, decentralists to a fault, would leave the issue mostly to the city to solve with funds from a fixed share of federal tax revenue.
- I'd like to believe that there are principled people on the left with whom antiwar decentralists on the right might be able to collaborate.
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