Centralization
[,sɛntrəlɪ'zeʃən]
Definition
(noun.) gathering to a center.
(noun.) the act of consolidating power under a central control.
Editor: Natasha--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act or process of centralizing, or the state of being centralized; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole; as, the centralization of power in the general government; the centralization of commerce in a city.
Typist: Rachel
Examples
- In all these things he moved with the times, they would have happened--with less autocracy, with less centralization, if he had never been born. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Centralization. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Those same twenty years mark the centralization of industry. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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