deconcentrate
verb (used with object)
to reduce the power or control of (a corporation, industry, etc.); decentralize.
deconcentration
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a word derived from
deconcentrate.
Example Sentences
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"Our approach of multiscale stress deconcentration expands the space of material properties, opening doors to curtailing polymer pollution and building high-performance soft machines," said Suo, senior author of the study.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 15, 2023
“Poverty deconcentration is the way of the day now in terms of housing policy,” says Mark Joseph, an assistant professor of social sciences at Case Western Reserve University.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2012
The committee recommended deconcentration of the plants of the I.G.
From Time Magazine Archive
Notes Bryant Robey, founder of American Demographics: "America's past has been one of steady centralization; its future is likely to be one of steady population deconcentration."
From Time Magazine Archive
Something like this deconcentration is found in the educational organization of France, and also in the office of the Prefect, but it is far more elaborate, and the machinery much more complex, in Prussia.
From The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg
