centralized
Americanadjective
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controlled from one place.
The individual police departments will transition to the centralized dispatch system beginning in October.
After years of opting for top-down regulatory approaches, the new administration has decided to move toward a less centralized form of government oversight.
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existing in one place, or being the center point of a network: The system allows users to record subscriber complaints in a single database, creating a centralized source of information to assist us in pinpointing systematic delivery problems.
Each computer has a twisted-pair cable that runs to a centralized hub.
The system allows users to record subscriber complaints in a single database, creating a centralized source of information to assist us in pinpointing systematic delivery problems.
verb
Other Word Forms
- uncentralized adjective
Etymology
Origin of centralized
Example Sentences
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Live offers a more centralized, campus-style setting, with venues and event spaces clustered together.
From Los Angeles Times
The question is whether the consumer AI transformation requires a half-trillion dollars in centralized infrastructure—or 2.5 billion devices that are already built and paid for.
CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks are platform providers, which means they integrate multiple security tools into a centralized interface.
From MarketWatch
Here is a possible benign outcome: In five years, Europe emerges better prepared to defend itself, with deeper capital markets thanks to more centralized fiscal policy and eurobond issuance.
From MarketWatch
"In other words," Burkhardt added, "evolution seems to have invented centralized nervous systems more than once."
From Science Daily
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