to recentralize
- verb
- /ˌriːˈsɛntrəˌlaɪz/
- Formal
:
recentralizar
- After years of decentralization, the administration aimed to recentralize power within a few key agencies.
- recentralize control
Examples
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In reality, however, the regime sought to recentralize control over the economy and to reverse many earlier reforms.
Academic text (1993) -
The Chinese state should recentralize its administrative power rather than decentralize further.
Academic text (1993) -
This attempt at recentralizing control came late.
Blog text (31) -
In fact, as Chinese trade, aid, and investment have grown, Havana has recentralized control over its economy.
Academic text (2006) -
At the time the first national Natural Resources Law was being debated, central leaders were also planning how to recentralize control of the tax revenue gathering system, to make them less dependent on accepting a slice of what was collected at lower levels.
Blog text (31) -
Recentralizing the former Soviet empire is probably not what the Russians intend, and in any case, they are probably incapable of such a reunion.
Academic text (1993) -
In Guangdong province, for example, the governor opposed the central government's attempt to recentralize fiscal control and became a popular figure not only in Guangdong but also among other provincial leaders who wanted to keep Beijing out of their territory.
Academic text (1992) -
Even the Internet is becoming more centrally controlled, as both access and content are recentralized in the hands of ever fewer commercial entities like AOL/Time Warner and the Microsoft Network.
Academic text (2002) -
Launched in April 1986 and still in effect, the rectification campaign reversed an experiment with market mechanisms by recentralizing the economy and substituting moral for material incentives.
Academic text (1990) -
As Callaghy indicated: "Mobutu adopted the Belgian colonial state structure and patrimonialized it by creating an administrative monarchy which was then used to recentralize power."
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
10
5.6
To move work and control into one place or under one leader
1
7.4
To bring separate parts back together into one group
Antonyms
How Centralized
- Formal
- US
10
5.6
- Formal
21
6.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
recentralize = centralize (transparent) = re + centr + al + ize
The meaning is directly predictable as 'centralize again' or 'bring back under central control'.
Etymology
The word recentralize joins the prefix re- meaning 'again' and central from center meaning 'the main place'. So to recentralize is to bring control 'back' to the main place, which is why governments or companies recentralize power when they want one place to make decisions.