Decentralization Synonyms and Antonyms

The social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. decentalisation
The spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. decentralisation
Antonyms:
  1. centralization

Decentralization Sentence Examples

  • This law was followed by further measures tending to decentralization and the protection of the native races.

  • But such unions were followed again and again by decentralization and disruption.

  • At the general elections of 1881 after the fall of the Ferry cabinet he was returned to the chamber on a programme which included the separation of Church and State, a policy of decentralization, and the imposition of an income-tax.

  • But his unfettered powers in this respect have been reduced under the third Republic. This has chiefly been the effect of the law of the 10th of August 1871, which has led to decentralization, by increasing the powers of the conseils generaux.

  • The Radicals of Serbia being conservative in all but name, made a working alliance with the clericals of Zagreb and Ljubljana, and under the leadership of Protic favoured decentralization, combined with concessions to the expropriated landowners.

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