Usually means: Distributes control away from center.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. decentralizes: Merriam-Webster
  2. decentralizes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. decentralizes: Vocabulary.com
  4. decentralizes: Wordnik
  5. decentralizes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. decentralizes: Wiktionary
  7. decentralizes: Dictionary.com
  8. decentralizes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. decentralizes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. decentralizes: 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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