Meaning

3 senses
  1. (British, English, Oxford, US)To move things physically towards the centre; to consolidate or concentrate

    zentralisieren

    централизова́тьcentralizovátʹ

    централізува́тиcentralizuváty

  2. (British, English, Oxford, US)To move power to a single, central authority

    make central

  3. (British, English, Oxford, US)To make something focal, the most important

Examples

22 sentences
  1. Algeria had a strong centralized bureaucracy.

  2. Algeria is still a centralized state.

  3. France is a hyper-centralized country.

    ruФранция — это гиперцентрализованная страна. — ninefi

    deFrankreich ist ein hyperzentralisiertes Land. — ninefi

  4. Algeria needs to get rid of its centralized bureaucracy.

  5. Your money is like a ghost, living in a centralized computer.

Translations

5 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to move things physically towards the centre; to consolidate or concentrate:
Русский
By meaning 1
to move things physically towards the centre; to consolidate or concentrate:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to move things physically towards the centre; to consolidate or concentrate:

Forms

centralizes, centralizing, centralized, centralized
Base formcentralize · to centralize
3rd person singularcentralizes
Present participlecentralizing
Past simplecentralized
Past participlecentralized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycentralize
he, she, itcentralizes

Past simpleLesson

all personscentralized

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave centralized
he, she, ithas centralized

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill centralize

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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