centralize
- to draw to or gather about a center.
- to bring under one control, especially in government: to centralize budgeting in one agency.
- to come together at or to form a center.
Origin of centralize
Related Words for centralize
consolidate, integrate, unify, rationalize, streamline, compact, incorporate, organize, systematize, gather, focus, condense, converge, amalgamate, accumulate, assemble, concenterExamples from the Web for centralize
Contemporary Examples of centralize
Their duty is to centralize all evidence currently available, but let a semi-organic process develop the rest.
Once in office, they are always going to centralize power and undermine the democracy that elevated them.
Historical Examples of centralize
Now, all the signs of the times indicate the necessity to centralize.
The Ontario High School ReaderA.E. Marty
This is an evil which has crept in with the tendency to centralize the schools.
Understand me, Sir, I do not seek to centralize, but to nationalize.
Charles Sumner; his complete works, volume 18 (of 20)Charles Sumner
His object was to purify French, and, as it were, to centralize it.
A History of Literary Criticism in the RenaissanceJoel Elias Spingarn
Chamberlain in vain urged defense and political policies designed to centralize power in London.
The Canadian DominionOscar D. Skelton
centralize
centralise
- to draw or move (something) to or towards a centre
- to bring or come under central control, esp governmental control
Word Origin and History for centralize
1795, "to bring to a center;" 1800, "come to a center," from central + -ize, on model of French centraliser (1790). A word from the French Revolution. Related: Centralized; centralizing.
Government should have a central point throughout its whole periphery. The state of the monthly expences amounted to four hundred millions; but within these seven months, it is reduced to one hundred and eighty millions. Such is the effect of the centralization of government; and the more we centralize it, the more we shall find our expenses decrease. [Saint-Just, "Discourse on the State of the Finances"]