decentralization

Noun

Meaning

The action of decentralizing, or the state of being decentralized.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

devolution deconcentration decentralisation decentalisation central federalism transfer surrender dissolution delegation centralized authorization centrally liberalization disintegration
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Antonyms

centralization garner crowd compact integration collect
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Hypernyms

spread spreading social process

Related terms

decentralize

Phrases with the word

anarchist decentralization

Examples

World War I a railway war of centralization and encirclement. World War II a radio war of decentralization concluded by the Bomb. World War III a TV guerrilla war with no divisions between civil and military fronts. Marshall McLuhan

The reform of our enormous state indeed demanded decentralization and redistribution of powers between the centre and the regions. But the local elites tried to paint this need in the exaggerated colours of 'national survival.' Mikhail Gorbachev

Yet that decentralization actually leads to more information being taken into account. Friedrich Hayek

Decentralization without structure is chaos. John Zachman

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else. Paul Farmer

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas. Dorothy Nevill

Close letter words and terms

decentralism decentralist decentralizable decentralizationist decentralize decentralized