English > decentralise: 1 sense > verb 1, change| Meaning | make less central. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s something |
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| Synonyms | decentralize, deconcentrate |
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| Narrower | federalize, federalise | put under the control and authority of a federal government |
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| Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
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| Opposite | centralize, centralise, concentrate | make central |
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| Spanish | descentralizarse, descentralizar |
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| Catalan | decentralitzar, descentralitzar-se, descentralitzar |
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| Nouns | decentralisation | the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments |
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