Usually means: Central control over local governments.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. centralism: Merriam-Webster
  2. centralism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. centralism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. centralism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. centralism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. centralism: Wiktionary
  7. centralism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. centralism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. centralism: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Centralism, centralism: Dictionary.com
  11. Centralism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Centralism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. centralism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. centralism: Rhymezone
  15. Centralism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. centralism: FreeDictionary.org
  17. centralism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. centralism: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Centralism, centralism: Wordnik
  20. centralism: Vocabulary.com
  21. centralism: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. centralism: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  A system that centralizes, especially an administration of some kind.

Similar:
hypercentralization, endarchy, statism, polycentrism, recentralization, anticentralization, stateism, unitarism, decentralism, omphalism, more...

Opposite:
decentralization, devolution, federalism

Phrases:
democratic centralism, more...

Adjectives:
democratic, bureaucratic, political, excessive, rigid, legal, authoritarian, administrative, german, extreme, proletarian

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Similar:
hypercentralization, endarchy, statism, polycentrism, recentralization, anticentralization, stateism, unitarism, decentralism, omphalism, more...

Opposite:
decentralization, devolution, federalism

Phrases:
democratic centralism, more...

Adjectives:
democratic, bureaucratic, political, excessive, rigid, legal, authoritarian, administrative, german, extreme, proletarian



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