Decentralize

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To distribute the administrative functions or powers of (a central authority) among several local authorities.
  • v. To bring about the redistribution of (an urban population and industry) to suburban areas.
  • v. To cause to withdraw or disperse from a center of concentration: decentralize a university complex; decentralize a museum.
  • verb-intransitive. To undergo redistribution or dispersal away from a central location or authority.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To cause something to change from being concentrated at one point to being distributed across a number of points.
  • v. To reduce the authority of a governing body by distributing that authority among several bodies.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. to make less central; to prevent from centralizing; to cause to withdraw from the center or place of concentration; to divide and distribute (what has been united or concentrated); -- esp. said of authority, or the administration of public affairs.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To distribute or take away from a center, or a central situation or authority; disperse, as what has been brought together, concentrated, or centralized.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make less central
    • Verb Form
    decentralized    decentralizes    decentralizing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    change    modify    alter   
    Hyponym
    federalise    federalize   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    centralize   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    scalable    centralize    role-based    mineralized    inhomogeneous   
     
    Disclaimer: This site has been created by RJ Softwares and is part of the Lexulous & Wordscraper games. The OFFICIAL SCRABBLE PLAYERS DICTIONARY, THE OFFICIAL TOURNAMENT AND CLUB WORD LIST, and associated word lists are properties owned by Hasbro, Inc. in the United States and Canada, and are used with permission.