{f} draw toward a center point; concentrate; bring under a single authority (government, etc.); make central (also centralise)
cen·tral·ize centralizes centralizing centralized in BRIT, also use centralise To centralize a country, state, or organization means to create a system in which one central group of people gives instructions to regional groups. In the mass production era multinational firms tended to centralize their operations The economy of the times made it difficult to support centralized rule. + centralization cen·trali·za·tion Nowhere in Britain has bureaucratic centralization proceeded with more pace than in Scotland. to organize the control of a country, organization, or system so that everything is done or decided in one place decentralize
The act or process of centralizing, or the state of being centralized; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole; as, the centralization of power in the general government; the centralization of commerce in a city
upper level management retains major decision making authority, creating all major policies and programs, and preserving the authority to make significant changes
Systems where decision making, flow of data or goods and services, or the beginning of activities are initiated at the same central point and disseminated to remote points in the chain or organization