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centralized
[sen-truh-lahyzd]
adjective
controlled from one place.
The individual police departments will transition to the centralized dispatch system beginning in October.
After years of opting for top-down regulatory approaches, the new administration has decided to move toward a less centralized form of government oversight.
existing in one place, or being the center point of a network: The system allows users to record subscriber complaints in a single database, creating a centralized source of information to assist us in pinpointing systematic delivery problems.
Each computer has a twisted-pair cable that runs to a centralized hub.
The system allows users to record subscriber complaints in a single database, creating a centralized source of information to assist us in pinpointing systematic delivery problems.
verb
the simple past tense and past participle of centralize.
Other Word Forms
- uncentralized adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of centralized1
Example Sentences
These regions were often skeptical of centralized power, and reformers pushed for tools like the initiative and referendum to give citizens a way to bypass political machines and corporate influence.
When Scan noticed a drop in patient ratings for some of the medical providers in its insurance network, it learned those providers had switched to using centralized call centers.
“Ensuring that we fully fund these systems is critical. ... There’s dozens of these systems, and yet there’s no real kind of centralized rules that are modern.”
There were similarities and differences between left- and right-wing fears of centralized power.
Perhaps they were too busy being mean girls in middle school to learn that “distrust in government” was baked into the United States, a nation founded on a rebellion against centralized, executive power.
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