to concentrate
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3.6
- verb
- /ˈkɒnsənˌtreɪt/
:
centralizar
- To close that gap, he'll concentrate his campaign efforts in the midwest where he's sagging in the polls.
- concentrate decision-making
- concentrate populations
- concentrated in one area
If you allow power to concentrate, watch out.
- If you allow power to concentrate, watch out.
- They're going to round them up pumps and concentrate them, right?
- No mental health issues are really concentrated in the poor for obvious reasons.
- So we have really, once we concentrate wealth, we concentrate passive income.
- They arrived on the Islam had concentrated his attack on the South of the city.
- Their intention is to dismantle democracy and have all of the power concentrated in the executive branch.
- And more and more power will be concentrated in non human hands, in the hands of these algorithms.
- We have chosen to concentrate power in a single authority, the nation state, and we pay our taxes.
Examples
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They're now concentrating on the ship itself, so far with no results.
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Starting today, your training routines will concentrate on an attack strategy.
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Concentrate your search to the north.
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Throughout the third quarter, the students concentrated on using the Web for their research.
Academic text (1999) -
But health care costs are instead heavily concentrated among a small number of relatively sick patients.
Academic text (2011) -
We've got to concentrate our resources on the talented ones.
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In this way, community colleges function to allow 4-year colleges to concentrate resources on more "able" students.
Academic text (2015) -
Here is where the Kaiju fell, here's where we concentrate our efforts.
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Notwithstanding occasional differences with the Western powers, Ankara concentrated on playing a role within Europe.
Academic text (2012) -
To improve productivity, we need to concentrate our efforts on key projects.
Synonyms
∞
2.1
To join people or things into one group for a shared purpose
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1.0
Bring people, things, or information together in one place
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1.1
To bring things or people together in one place
65
3.7
To bring people or things together into one group
50
3.4
Gather people or things and organize them to reach a goal
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1.2
To put people and things together by type or purpose
10
5.6
To move work and control into one place or under one leader
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3.4
To make a group feel part of the same community
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4.9
Combined into one unit from separate parts
To bring attention, ideas, or efforts together on one thing
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
How Centralized
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Morphology
Etymology
Concentrate comes from the Latin parts con- 'together' and centrum 'center', so picture moving people or things into one central place. So, to concentrate resources or people is to bring them together in one area.