Similar words: centralise, centralist, centralism, centralised, decentralise, decentralised, decentralisation, central processing unit. Meaning: adj. tending to draw to a central point.
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(1) He gave warning that centralising the rescue service as planned by the Government, had to affect response time.
(2) The firm is centralising production in Lancashire, and staff are blaming the job losses on the Government's pit closure programme.
(3) Companies reduce unit costs by centralising their manufacturing and producing long runs of standardised items.
(4) Their hierarchical, centralising tendencies mean originality and initiative are stifled as a matter of course.
(5) He does not believe in a federal Europe with centralising powers. Sentencedict.com
(6) For a Liberal Democrat to argue that giving institutions the power to run their own affairs is a centralising measure is extraordinary.
(7) Meco International has sold one of its subsidiary companies and so is closing a factory and centralising production on to another site.
(8) Even so, it would be tragic if Russia's leaders used them to justify further centralising power, more crackdowns on political freedom and greater powers for the state's security forces.
(9) The Port Authority aims to make its operations more efficient by centralising the administrative and technical services which are now divided between the Port House and quay 63.
(10) The agency rapidly set up mechanisms to ensure adherence to drug standards, including enforcing good manufacturing practice and centralising drug approvals.
(11) Inside the shaft these probes move up and down and sweep round 360 degrees on a specially designed track held between two centralising spider assemblies.
(12) But they think they can secure cost reductions of about $1 billion a year by centralising their back-office operations and cutting management jobs.
(13) Both complain that they have been sidelined by Mr Mbeki's centralising rule.
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