centralizing

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centralizing - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Centralize \Cen"tral*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Centralized; p.
     pr. & vb. n. Centralizing.] [Cf. F. centraliser.]
     To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a
     center; to bring into one system, or under one control.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           [To] centralize the power of government. --Bancroft.
     [1913 Webster]

  centralizing \centralizing\ adj. prenom.
     causing to concentrate at a center. Opposite of
     decentralizing. [Narrower terms: centripetal, unifying(prenominal)
     ]
     [WordNet 1.5]

centralizing - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  centralizing
      adj 1: tending to draw to a central point [syn:
             centralizing(a), centralising(a)] [ant:
             decentralising(a), decentralizing(a)]