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/dēˈsentrəˌlīz/,
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decentralizing, present participle; decentralising, present participle; decentralized, past participle; decentralised, past tense; decentralises, 3rd person singular present; decentralizes, 3rd person singular present; decentralised, past participle; decentralized, past tense;
  1. Transfer (authority) from central to local government
    • - Canada has one of the most decentralized governments in the world
    • - European countries were trying to decentralize
  2. Move departments of (a large organization) away from a single administrative center to other locations, usually granting them some degree of autonomy

  1. make less central; "After the revolution, food distribution was decentralized"
  2. (decentralization) the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts
  3. (decentralization) the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments
  4. decentralizing(a): tending away from a central point
  5. Decentralization or Decentralisation (see spelling differences) is the process of dispersing decision-making governance closer to the people and/or citizen. ...
  6. (Decentralized) An organizational structure in which decision-making authority is located not at the center but at the nodes. (Concept)
  7. (Decentralized) Cassandra is considered decentralized because there it defines no master server, and instead uses a peer-to-peer approach in order to prevent bottlenecks and single points of failure. ...
  8. (Decentralized) assessment Assessment of student learning carried out by each educational institution
  9. (decentralized) A system or process that initiates action by end users or locations, rather than by a consolidated central organization that pushes data, goods or services to those points based on its own parameters.
  10. (decentralized) A type of network in which users are responsible for creating their own data backups and for providing security for their computers.
  11. (decentralized) Whose administrative agencies, power, authority, etc., are distributed widely, rather than concentrated in a single place or person. In Hinduism, authority is decentralized.
  12. The term decentralized in relation to RDS means that services can run on any computer in a network and communicate with each other in a peer-to-peer arrangement.
  13. (Decentralization) The location of decision making authority near lower organisational levels.
  14. Decentralization takes some power from the centre and puts it into the surrounding locations. . It is not the same as democratization (it can be the decentralizing of tyranny) but can assist in democratization.
  15. (Decentralization) Characteristic of a practice in which a significant amount of authority is delegated to lower levels in the organization.
  16. (Decentralization) A transfer of the locus of decision-making authority concerning policies from a higher level of government to a lower level (e.g., from federal to state or from state to county).
  17. (Decentralization) Spreading power and control across a large group of people, rather than concentrating it in the hands of a few. The basic political goal of anarchism is total decentralization, spreading all power equally among all people.
  18. (Decentralization) The architecture of the Jabber network is similar to email; anyone can run their own Jabber server and there is no central master server.
  19. (Decentralization) The dispersal of processes, practices and procedures for a service into multiple locations, roles and/or mechanisms.
  20. (Decentralization) When an activity is performed in or controlled from many locations instead of a few. There are many reasons why a business decentralizes certain processes. A decentralized process is more robust in that a disaster at one location will not effect other locations. ...
  21. (Decentralization) authority and responsibility for decision-making being dispersed more widely downwards and given to the operating units, branches and lower-level managers.
  22. (Decentralization) downward redistribution of resources, responsibilities, and decision-making powers in a territorial and administrative hierarchy (Agrawal 2008).
  23. (Decentralization) movement of people, government functions or employment opportunities out from an established central area to a relatively peripheral one. Identified at city, regional and national scale.
  24. (Decentralization) the process of delegating authority and assigning responsibilities for providing services away from the central governance structures to more-local authorities, institutions or structures. ...
  25. (decentralization) The movement of first people and later employment and services out of inner-city areas into suburban districts and then into more distant commuter hinterlands beyond city limits. ...