centralization
[sen-truh-luh-zey-shuh n]
- the act or fact of centralizing; fact of being centralized.
- the concentration of administrative power in a central government, authority, etc.
- Chiefly Sociology.
- a process whereby social groups and institutions become increasingly dependent on a central group or institution.
- concentration of control or power in a few individuals.
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Origin of centralization
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Examples from the Web for centralization
Contemporary Examples
But Tocqueville in fact distinguished between two kinds of centralization: centralized administration and centralized government.
Grievances over the centralization of power downtown (with its latte-sipping elites, and so on) still runs strong.
Centralization leaves information vulnerable: to fraud, to surveillance, to sale.
All of the apparatuses of centralization need to be subject to reconsideration.
He predicts that “the concentration and centralization of power will remain at the White House” when it comes to foreign policy.
Historical Examples
We may express that method in the one word "centralization."
History of the Moravian ChurchJ. E. Hutton
Those same twenty years mark the centralization of industry.
A Preface to PoliticsWalter Lippmann
Centralization permits, but does not guarantee, greater efficiency.
Chapters in Rural ProgressKenyon L. Butterfield
One of the first tendencies of sickness is to centralization.
The doctor well understood all the advantages of centralization.
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Word Origin and History for centralization
n.
1801, especially of administrative power, originally with reference to Napoleonic France and on model of French centralisation. See centralize + -ation.
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