Usually means: Shift control from central to many.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word decentralize:

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

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

(Note: See decentralized as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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