1. To bring authority, control or functions under a single central body or point.
2. To bring activities, facilities or objects together in one central location.
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Words that belong together
- centralize decision-making
- centralize control
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The reform centralized decision-making without moving every office to the same building.
The organization centralized control of the shared records to resolve conflicting procedures.
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- Base
- centralize
- Past tense
- centralized
- Past participle
- centralized
- Present participle
- centralizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- centralize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are centralizing
- Present perfect
- have/has centralized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been centralizing
- Past
- centralized
- Past continuous
- was/were centralizing
- Past perfect
- had centralized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been centralizing
- Future
- will centralize
- Future continuous
- will be centralizing
- Future perfect
- will have centralized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been centralizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: centralize; centralizes; centralized; centralized; centralizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: definition, institutional analysis, scope assessment, comparison. Disciplines: academic writing, institutional analysis, conceptual explanation. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: centralizes.
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