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- noun same as
decentralization .
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- noun Alternative spelling of
decentralization .
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- noun the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments
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Examples
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And the second best kind of decentralisation is not from Ottawa to the provinces but rather to the local communities.
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And you know, a funny thing about decentralisation is that some of us might be dubious about it, but nobody hates it.
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Chris, you don’t seem arrogant and decentralisation is your watchword, so I guess I’ll give the benefit of the doubt.
A conversation with Ville Vesterinen about standards and the open social web | FactoryCity 2009
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Justice's transformation objectives, namely the decentralisation of its functions with the view of achieving community participation in the administration of justice and improved service delivery.
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Belgium supported the idea of decentralisation arguing that it could bring government accountability down to the grassroots level.
BBC News - Home 2011
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Abhisit, who has been non-committal on the idea of decentralisation or self-rule for the once-independent region, has said that a long-term political solution was important, but he ruled out talks with the opposition fighters.
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Abhisit, who has been non-committal on the idea of decentralisation or self-rule for the once-independent region, has said that a long-term political solution was important, but he ruled out talks with the opposition fighters.
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But it is to improved transport services that we may look to facilitate a kind of decentralisation, the net gain of which is less dubious than that arising from the substitution of a large number of industrial villages for a small number of industrial towns.
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899
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Were it possible to bring about the decentralisation which is to-day preoccupying minds lacking in foresight, the achievement would promptly have for consequence the most sanguinary disorders.
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At the same time, Richard Haass - like Blackwill, a key official in both Bush administrations and president of the influential Council on Foreign Relations for most of the past decade - offered a variation of that stratagem which he called 'decentralisation', in last week's 'Newsweek' cover story, entitled 'We're Not Winning.
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