The city's hospitals hope to centralize [= consolidate] medical records in a single database. All shipping operations have been centralized at the Miami office. The controversial reforms could be used to further centralize power in the hands of one party.
2 meanings: 1. to draw or move (something) to or towards a centre 2. to bring or come under central control, esp governmental.... Click for more definitions.
To bring under a single, central authority: The Constitution centralizes political power in the federal government. To come together at a center; concentrate. cen′tral·i·za′tion (-trə-lĭ-zā′shən) n. cen′tral·iz′er n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
centralize something to give the control of a country or an organization to a group of people in one particular place. Definition of centralize verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
A centralized government (also united government) is one in which both executive and legislative power is concentrated centrally at the higher level as opposed to it being more distributed at various lower-level governments.
Anything that's centralized is under the control of one unified authority or located in a single place, like a centralized government. If a business is centralized, it operates from a central location, rather than spreading things out between stores, offices, or factories.
