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central + -ize

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Plain form
centralize

Third-person singular
centralizes

Past tense
centralized

Past participle
centralized

Present participle
centralizing

  1. When a decision is made to centralize a government, power in the government is being concentrated more in the center of the government and less at the local level.
  2. If a person decides to centralize something, he is moving it to the center of an area.

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