Centralize
verb
To bring things together at a single point or place.
The management decided to centralize all the operations in the head office
Often appears as...
- centralize operations
- centralize control
verb
To make a decision making authority in a single place or one single group.
The government has plans to centralize healthcare administration
Often appears as...
- centralize authority
- centralize decision-making
verb
To make a system or a process happens within one particular organization or place.
The company centralized their marketing process to create a unified brand image
Often appears as...
- centralize system
- centralize process
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Business
verb
To bring things together at a single point or place.
The management decided to centralize all the operations in the head office
Often appears as...
- centralize operations
- centralize control
verb
To make a decision making authority in a single place or one single group.
The government has plans to centralize healthcare administration
Often appears as...
- centralize authority
- centralize decision-making
verb
To make a system or a process happens within one particular organization or place.
The company centralized their marketing process to create a unified brand image
Often appears as...
- centralize system
- centralize process
Usage tips
Business
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Power Consolidation
Centralize can imply that power is being concentrated, which might have political or social implications.
The ruler's decision to centralize power raised concerns among citizens.
Pro Tip 2/3Efficiency Improvement
Using 'centralize' may suggest efforts to improve efficiency or quality by managing from a single point.
To centralize operations, the company introduced a new organizational structure.
Pro Tip 3/3Resistance to Change
Centralizing can be met with resistance, as it often changes long-standing processes or hierarchies.
Employees were hesitant when the new CEO opted to centralize leadership roles.
Pro Tip 1/3Power Consolidation
Centralize can imply that power is being concentrated, which might have political or social implications.
The ruler's decision to centralize power raised concerns among citizens.
Pro Tip 2/3Efficiency Improvement
Using 'centralize' may suggest efforts to improve efficiency or quality by managing from a single point.
To centralize operations, the company introduced a new organizational structure.
Pro Tip 3/3Resistance to Change
Centralizing can be met with resistance, as it often changes long-standing processes or hierarchies.
Employees were hesitant when the new CEO opted to centralize leadership roles.
Pro Tip 1/3Power Consolidation
Centralize can imply that power is being concentrated, which might have political or social implications.
The ruler's decision to centralize power raised concerns among citizens.
Pro Tip 2/3Efficiency Improvement
Using 'centralize' may suggest efforts to improve efficiency or quality by managing from a single point.
To centralize operations, the company introduced a new organizational structure.
Pro Tip 3/3Resistance to Change
Centralizing can be met with resistance, as it often changes long-standing processes or hierarchies.
Employees were hesitant when the new CEO opted to centralize leadership roles.
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and that more centralized authority would return the states to the sort of tyranny they had just escaped. These Anti-Federalists were especially worried by the text's apparent lack of protections for individual liberties. As the conventions proceeded, many of these critics shifted from opposing the Constitution entirely
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Glenn Greenwald: Why...
who set out to resolve an important problem ushered in by the industrial age, where, for the first time, institutions had become so large and centralized that they were no longer able to monitor and therefore control each one of their individual members, and the solution that he devised
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How the mysterious dark...
more decentralized, harder to censor, and more customer-friendly. Let's take the payment system. You don't pay with your credit card, of course -- that would lead directly back to you. So you use the crypto-currency bitcoin, which is easily exchanged for real-world currencies
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A healthy economy should...
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How the blockchain will...
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Unpacking the nuts and...
mobile purchases still settle using the same paper money we've always used so as Bruno said you may have heard lately about a new digital currency called Bitcoin that hopes to change that bitcoin is the first decentralized
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Michael Anti: Behind the...
centralized server structure to strengthen its power to counter the local government and the different factions. So, what's the future? After all, we are the mouse. Whatever the future is, we should fight against the.
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Who owns the "wilderness"...
so hunters killed park wildlife, cattle overgrazed fields, and visitors vandalized landmarks. The solution came from Canada, which had a highly effective centralized park service.
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Is the world getting...
Yet the world has never been more democratic than it has been in the past decade, with two-thirds of the world's people living in democracies. Homicide rates plunge whenever anarchy and the code of vendetta are replaced by the rule of law. It happened when feudal Europe was brought under the control of centralized kingdoms,
Video examples
Why wasn’t the Bill of...
and that more centralized authority would return the states to the sort of tyranny they had just escaped. These Anti-Federalists were especially worried by the text's apparent lack of protections for individual liberties. As the conventions proceeded, many of these critics shifted from opposing the Constitution entirely
Video examples
Steve Boyes: Reviving...
over the villages at decentralized is everything but involves people it involves communities the kids are watering these plants this granny over here I interviewed her two weeks ago or three weeks ago and she said to me that every morning she comes and she sprinkles laughs on these trees and it
Video examples
Glenn Greenwald: Why...
who set out to resolve an important problem ushered in by the industrial age, where, for the first time, institutions had become so large and centralized that they were no longer able to monitor and therefore control each one of their individual members, and the solution that he devised
Video examples
How the mysterious dark...
more decentralized, harder to censor, and more customer-friendly. Let's take the payment system. You don't pay with your credit card, of course -- that would lead directly back to you. So you use the crypto-currency bitcoin, which is easily exchanged for real-world currencies
Video examples
A healthy economy should...
so that it teems with life again. But as well as being regenerative by design, our economies must be distributive by design, and we've got unprecedented opportunities for making that happen, because 20th-century centralized technologies, institutions,
Video examples
How the blockchain will...
It's a shared database, and even though it has multiple readers and multiple writers at the same time, it has one single truth. So we can create that using blockchains. We can create a decentralized database that has the same efficiency of a monopoly
Video examples
Unpacking the nuts and...
mobile purchases still settle using the same paper money we've always used so as Bruno said you may have heard lately about a new digital currency called Bitcoin that hopes to change that bitcoin is the first decentralized
Video examples
Michael Anti: Behind the...
centralized server structure to strengthen its power to counter the local government and the different factions. So, what's the future? After all, we are the mouse. Whatever the future is, we should fight against the.
Video examples
Who owns the "wilderness"...
so hunters killed park wildlife, cattle overgrazed fields, and visitors vandalized landmarks. The solution came from Canada, which had a highly effective centralized park service.
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American Basketball Player
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Canadian Businessman
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Freeman Dyson
American Physicist
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Craig Venter
American Scientist
Creating life at the speed of light is part of a new industrial revolution. Manufacturing will shift from centralised factories to a distributed, domestic manufacturing future, thanks to the rise of 3D printer technology.
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Tim Pawlenty
American Politician
We want market-based, consumer-based reforms in health care. We want to give people incentives to make wise choices in a marketplace, not centralized choices and have government mandates and takeovers.
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Juan Benet
American Businessman
We do expect there will be some big centralised miners that will have a lots of storage and economies of scale. But there will also be a large cloud of small miners all over the world.
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Milton Friedman
American Economist
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
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Jim Leach
American Politician
America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government.
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Jeb Hensarling
American Politician
Frankly, I do like the idea that we centralize consumer protection for financial products into one agency.
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Mike Cernovich
American Writer
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Spencer Dinwiddie
American Basketball Player
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