to concentrate
- verb
- /ˈkɒnsənˌtreɪt/
- 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
To join people or things into one group for a shared purpose
Bring people, things, or information together in one place
To bring things or people together in one place
To bring people or things together into one group
Gather people or things and organize them to reach a goal
To put people and things together by type or purpose
To move work and control into one place or under one leader
To make a group feel part of the same community
Combined into one unit from separate parts
To bring attention, ideas, or efforts together on one thing
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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.