centralize
verbOPAL W
/ˈsentrəlaɪz/
/ˈsentrəlaɪz/
(British English also centralise)
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they centralize | /ˈsentrəlaɪz/ /ˈsentrəlaɪz/ |
| he / she / it centralizes | /ˈsentrəlaɪzɪz/ /ˈsentrəlaɪzɪz/ |
| past simple centralized | /ˈsentrəlaɪzd/ /ˈsentrəlaɪzd/ |
| past participle centralized | /ˈsentrəlaɪzd/ /ˈsentrəlaɪzd/ |
| -ing form centralizing | /ˈsentrəlaɪzɪŋ/ /ˈsentrəlaɪzɪŋ/ |
- centralize something to give the control of a country or an organization to a group of people in one particular place
- a highly centralized system of government
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCentralize is used with these nouns as the object:- control