Definition of Centralizing

1. Adjective. Tending to draw to a central point.


Definition of Centralizing

1. Verb. (present participle of centralize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Centralizing

1. centralize [v] - See also: centralize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Centralizing

centralising(a)
centralism
centralisms
centralist
centralistic
centralists
centralities
centrality
centralization
centralizations
centralize
centralized
centralizer
centralizers
centralizes
centralizing (current term)
centralizing(a)
centrally
centralness
centrals
centralspindlin
centrarchid
centration
centre
centre-axle trailer
centre-back
centre-backs
centre-board
centre-forward
centre-half

Literary usage of Centralizing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties by Moisei Ostrogorski (1902)
"Thus the local committees, not to mention the higher ones, the State and national committees, are cast in a centralizing mould. v The local committee, ..."

2. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University (1912)
"centralizing TENDENCIES AND NEEDS. Departments.—No form of state government is absolutely good or absolutely bad. When Virginia declared her independence of ..."

3. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1901)
"centralizing TENDENCIES IN ADMINISTRATION. BY HUGH F. FOX, CHAIRMAN. It is, I believe, customary for each committee of this Conference to present a report ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... but at the same time he did encourage a centralizing tendency which left a supreme jurisdiction in the bishop's hands within the limits of the ..."

5. Essays and Addresses: Religious, Literary and Social by Phillips Brooks (1894)
"THE centralizing POWER OF THE GOSPEL. (Episcopal Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Va.,.) How when we once get within the sphere of a great truth we find ..."

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