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Definition of Centralizing
1. Adjective. Tending to draw to a central point.
Similar to: Centripetal, Unifying, Consolidative, Integrative
Antonyms: Decentralizing
Definition of Centralizing
1. Verb. (present participle of centralize) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Centralizing
1. centralize [v] - See also: centralize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Centralizing
Literary usage of Centralizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties by Moisei Ostrogorski (1902)
"Thus the local committees, not to mention the higher ones, the State and national
committees, are cast in a centralizing mould. v The local committee, ..."
2. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University (1912)
"centralizing TENDENCIES AND NEEDS. Departments.—No form of state government is
absolutely good or absolutely bad. When Virginia declared her independence of ..."
3. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1901)
"centralizing TENDENCIES IN ADMINISTRATION. BY HUGH F. FOX, CHAIRMAN. It is, I
believe, customary for each committee of this Conference to present a report ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... but at the same time he did encourage a centralizing tendency which left a
supreme jurisdiction in the bishop's hands within the limits of the ..."
5. Essays and Addresses: Religious, Literary and Social by Phillips Brooks (1894)
"THE centralizing POWER OF THE GOSPEL. (Episcopal Theological Seminary, Alexandria,
Va.,.) How when we once get within the sphere of a great truth we find ..."
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