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de- + centralize

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Plain form
decentralize

Third-person singular
decentralizes

Past tense
decentralized

Past participle
decentralized

Present participle
decentralizing

  1. If you decentralize a meeting, you change it from being concentrated at one point to being distributed across a number of points.
    Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the celebration has been decentralized to multiple locations.

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