centralization
pronunciation
How to pronounce centralization in British English:
UK [ˌsentrəlaɪ'zeɪʃn]
How to pronounce centralization in American English:
US [ˌsentrəlaɪ'zeɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- the act of consolidating power under a central control
- gathering to a center
Word Origin
- centralization (n.)
- 1801, especially of administrative power, originally with reference to Napoleonic France and on model of French centralisation. See centralize + -ation.
Antonym
Example
- 1. Decentralization began with high hopes in 1999 to reverse the extreme centralization of the suharto years .
- 2. He promised more ' direct democracy , ' less centralization and more attacks on corruption , but didn 't say how it would be done .
- 3. Ironically , centralization of services is being accompanied by increasing interest in mobile computing .
- 4. I mention this now because although the standardizing and therefore nihilizing impact of political and intellectual centralization is clear the analogous impact of economic centralization-as one of the indirect methods of manipulating life in general-is far from being so obvious .
- 5. The emerging it paradigm enables them to achieve these objectives through a different mechanism : centralization .