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Definition of Centralise
1. Verb. Make central. "The Russian government centralized the distribution of food"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Derivative terms: Centralisation, Centralisation, Centralization, Centralization
Antonyms: Decentralise, Decentralize, Deconcentrate
Definition of Centralise
1. Verb. (British spelling) (alternative spelling of centralize) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Centralise
1. [v -ISED, -ISING, -ISES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Centralise
Literary usage of Centralise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. What is Meaning?: Studies in the Development of Significance by Victoria Welby (1903)
"... to centralise and co-ordinate, to interpret and inter-relate, to concentrate
and actualise the efforts of all true teachers to bring out the meaning of ..."
2. Oecd Economic Surveys 2006: Luxembourg by Oecd (2006)
"D. Reduce costs of moral hazard in health care Support the proposal for GPs (general
practitioners) to centralise their patients' medical files. ..."
3. Capital Market Development in Transition Economies: Country Experiences and by Eva Thiel-Blommestein, Centre for Co-operation with Non-members (1998)
"... fragmentation and ambitions to centralise trading in the interest of promoting
transparency. Market fragmentation can occur for two basic reasons. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1855)
"The more you centralise labour, tho most you centralise mankind; and iu proportion
as you do work in this way wholesale, is it badly, clumsily, ..."
5. Principles of Physiological Psychology by Wilhelm Max Wundt (1904)
"They, too, are ' association centres,' in the sense that they contain nodal points
which serve to centralise the functions, but centralise them by bringing ..."