centralized
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- adjective
- /ˈsɛntrəˌlaɪzd/
- US
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centralizado
- Many governments prefer a centralized approach to control public services more effectively.
- a highly centralized system
- a centralized economy
- a centralized system
How do you how do you even make it happen without a centralized controller?
- How do you how do you even make it happen without a centralized controller?
- So this decentralized industry is a lot more centralized than many people think.
- And should we even try to aim for a more centralized governance structure?
- If you can, this might be an alternative to the centralized databases.
- But that kind of sort of centralised information structure no longer exists.
- Like so you think ultimately without centralized control, you can have stability?
- This was why he envisaged a total, total centralised control.
- All pregnant mums were seeing care at in kind of a centralized way.
- And this is big countries and little countries, Asian countries and European countries, centralized countries and decentralized countries.
- So in simplistic terms, centralized finances, everything is at a central server central location.
- And then in the European Union, of course, there's this bringing together countries under centralized control.
- And we then created a much more centralized government with the power to fund and raise armies.
- And it's just crypto swapping with crypto and even the centralized exchanges just like let you swap crypto for crypto.
- I mean, but I mean it's centralized, correct?
Examples
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Do you know of any centralized website where those resources are already posted?
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The Internet over time, became a set of centralized services and systems.
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This was a centralized war economy system adapted to the production of consumer goods.
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And then in the European Union, of course, there's this bringing together countries under centralized control.
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Complicating policy formation was the question of whether a centralized or decentralized authority was responsible.
Academic text (1994) -
The Soviet-style system has left as its legacy a highly centralized, monopolistic economy dominated by heavy industries.
Academic text (1991) -
The company adopted a centralized management system to streamline operations.
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With a centralized database, all employee information is easily accessible in one location.
Antonyms
How Centralized
Surface Forms
Morphology
centralized = centralize (transparent) = central + ize + ed
The verb 'centralize' is a regular derivation from 'central' + '-ize', and adding '-ed' yields the adjective/past-participle meaning 'brought under central control' in a predictable way.
Etymology
Centralized comes from central, which comes from center, meaning 'middle'. So, to centralize is to bring control, people, or tasks into one main place or to give power to one authority.