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How to pronounce decentralise in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms decentralize, deconcentrate
Type of alter, change, modify
Has types federalise, federalize
Derivation decentralisation

Examples of decentralise

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Big cities decentralise as they grow, creating more jobs outside the centre.
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If you start from a relatively centralised system, you decentralise to achieve that.
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As long as that is the case it will be difficult to really decentralise power in England.
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A health bill will decentralise power in the National Health Service.
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A central tenet of American conservatism is to decentralise power.
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Mr Fox, for his part, says he will truly decentralise education.
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There are discussions to decentralise HIV treatment services because people face stigma and discrimination.
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As well as shrinking the state, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats are keen to decentralise it.
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Both men want to decentralise Japan's Tokyo-dominated politics and cut growth-stifling bureaucracy.
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  • Decentralize: make less central; "After the revolution, food distribution was decentralized"
  • In France, the policy of decentralisation was initiated by acts of the French parliament known as Gaston Defferre Laws in 1982. Prior to the new laws French municipalities and departments enjoyed a limited autonomy under laws passed in 1871 and 1884.
  • (Decentralised (implementation)) Refers to the implementation/carrying out of activities remotely from the Secretariat (in GBIF-speak, NBIFs, ReBIFs, ThemeBIFs, i.e. via Participant Nodes in general).
  • (Decentralised) A management structure in which many decisions are not taken at the centre of the business but are delegated to lower levels of management.
  • (Decentralised) The concept of moving services away from a central point and using local resources to distribute the computing load. Decentralisation allows BrightSparks to provide a superior service at a fraction of the cost as it reduces the amount of equipment required at the data centre.
  • (Decentralisation) the movement of shops, offices and industry away from urban centres in MEDCs and NICs into retail and business parks in the suburbs. Recent trends have been to decentralise still further out into many semi-rural locations. ...
  • (Decentralisation) The freedom for managers at lower levels (subunits) of the organisation to make decisions.
  • (Decentralisation) the process by which management of EU funds is devolved to candidate country administrations. This is presently governed by the Decentralised Implementation System (DIS). ...
  • (decentralisation) transferring authority from central to local levels. This can be at the global, regional, national, local or household level. ...