Usually means: Shifting control from central authority.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word decentralizing:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. decentralizing: Merriam-Webster
  2. decentralizing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. decentralizing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Decentralizing, decentralizing: Wordnik
  5. decentralizing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. decentralizing: Wiktionary
  7. decentralizing: Dictionary.com
  8. decentralizing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. decentralizing: FreeDictionary.org
  10. decentralizing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. decentralizing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decentralizing: Legal dictionary

(Note: See decentralize as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (decentralize)

verb:  To cause something to change from being concentrated at one point to being distributed across a number of points.
verb:  To reduce the authority of a governing body by distributing that authority among several bodies.
verb:  (US) In police terminology, to bring a suspect to the ground by use of directed force; a tackle.
▸ Also see decentralize


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