decentralization.

The distribution of authority or control away from a central body.

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Words that belong together

• administrative decentralization
• decentralization of decisions

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Administrative decentralization gave regional offices authority over the specified tasks.

Decentralization of decisions did not remove the shared reporting requirement.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. 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: requirements and constraints, institutional organization, formal assessment, system properties. Disciplines: academic writing, formal analysis, institutional studies. Commonness: moderately common.