centralizer
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- noun
- /ˈsɛntrəˌlaɪzər/
- US
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centralizador
- Would-be centralizers need enough military power to raise the costs of resistance and scare their opponents into contemplating cooperation.
- enough centralizers
You know, libertarians and conservatives mistrust the, the, the centraliser who tells you he knows everything.
- You know, libertarians and conservatives mistrust the, the, the centraliser who tells you he knows everything.
- Can AGI one develop, become the centralizer because of its power?
Examples
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The ability to gather around, to see how each fits the needs of the whole -- that finally became the theme I tried to portray with Washington -- his role as "centralizer."
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To enhance communication, the manager acted as acentralizer, bringing together different departments for team meetings.
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In Latin American women's history, particularly, there is the concept of the "centralizer."
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Alongside their coercive efforts, therefore, centralizers need to find other ways of bringing their rivals into the fold and keeping them there.
Academic text (2010) -
Let's take the Republican Party out of the hands of insiders and centralizers, and make it a bottom-up party again.
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Adherents of the precautionary principle are, however, centralizers.
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This historic European debate has become a conflict between centralizers and decentralizers (with the Germans at one extreme, in favor of an integrated Europe, and the British at the other, in favor of a "Europe of the nations").
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The architect used acentralizer to ensure that all the columns were perfectly aligned.
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In a large organization, acentralizer helps streamline operations by consolidating decision-making processes.
Synonyms
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7.4
A person or thing that controls how a system works
How Centralizing
Surface Forms
Morphology
centralizer = centralize (transparent) = central + ize + er
Standard agentive formation from the verb 'centralize' by adding '-er', yielding 'one that centralizes'.
Etymology
Centralizer comes from central (from center) plus -ize meaning 'to make' and -er meaning 'one who'. So a centralizer is literally 'one who makes or keeps something at the center', which fits both devices and people that bring things to a central point.