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  • adjective causing a dispersion or movement away from the center; -- used especially of power or administrative functions. Opposite of centralizing.

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  • verb Present participle of decentralize.

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  • adjective tending away from a central point

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Examples

  • Even within the old, dense cities, population and jobs are decentralizing from the high-density cores to the lower-density suburbs, where cars prevail.

    Matthew Yglesias » Doing It Low-Tech 2010

  • So the first step in decentralizing Twitter is to get our data safe and stored off twitter. com.

    Scripting News for 5/5/2008 « Scripting News Annex 2008

  • We have been too generous in decentralizing fiscal power to all ten provinces.

    The Challenge of Canadian Federalism in the 1980s 1980

  • And within those, there is the idea of decentralizing powers to the different regions, provinces, federal states -- call them what you like -- but the essence of it is to maintain one country, sovereign, and allow local people in different parts of the country to run their lives the way they want.

    CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2005 2005

  • Brett said he also is attracted to the idea of decentralizing the power of exchanges such as the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market, where, he said, "they could really care less about a local economy."

    Berks county news 2009

  • The key is "decentralizing" aid systems so communities have the autonomy and resources to respond flexibly to local needs.

    Michelle Chen: Learning From Shattered Haiti's Year of Struggle Michelle Chen 2011

  • The key is "decentralizing" aid systems so communities have the autonomy and resources to respond flexibly to local needs.

    Michelle Chen: Learning From Shattered Haiti's Year of Struggle Michelle Chen 2011

  • The key is "decentralizing" aid systems so communities have the autonomy and resources to respond flexibly to local needs.

    Michelle Chen: Learning From Shattered Haiti's Year of Struggle Michelle Chen 2011

  • More significantly, however, the contrasting examples noted above -- of (1) an American democracy that sanctions one of the worst international crimes of the early twenty-first century and (2) a U. S.-approved "decentralizing" Russian democracy that permitted the impoverishment and death of many of its people (the so-called demos) - raise a more serious question.

    Inciting a New Cold War: Hypocritical U.S. Views about Russia's Democracy 2007

  • So, too, is "decentralizing" the power and resources currently held in the capital Port-au-Prince, which Michaelle Jean warned is "dangerously overpopulated" and has "ignored" the other regions of the country for "a long time."

    Winnipeg Sun 2010

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