centralizeverb [ T ]
UK also centralise uk/ˈsen.trə.laɪz/us/ˈsen.trə.laɪz/to remove authority in a system, company, country, etc. from local places to one central place so that the whole system, etc. is under central control:
Payment of bills is now centralized (= organized at one place instead of several).
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Managing and organizing
- act
- administer
- administration
- bureaucracy
- bureaucratic
- campaign
- head sth up
- in hand idiom
- kaizen
- manage
- management
- mind the store idiom
- run the show idiom
- running
- shakedown
- square
- square sth/sb away
- stage
- stage-manage
- stewardship
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centralization
noun [ U ] UK also centralisation uk/ˌsen.trəˈlaɪ.zeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌsen.trəˈlə.zeɪ.ʃən/