| VERB | change | decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise | make less central |
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| Sounds | dihseh'ntrahlay.z | |
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| Rhymes | actualize ... womanize: 266 rhymes with ayz... | |
| Meaning | make less central. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "After the revolution, food distribution was decentralized" | |
| Synonyms | deconcentrate, decentralise | |
| Narrower | federalize, federalise | put under the control and authority of a federal government |
| Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
| Opposite | centralize, centralise, concentrate | make central |
| Spanish | descentralizarse, descentralizar | |
| Catalan | decentralitzar, descentralitzar-se, descentralitzar | |
| Nouns | decentralization | the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments |
| decentralization | the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts | |
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