verb
- Make less central.
- usage: "After the revolution, food distribution was decentralized"
- synonyms: decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise
adjective
- Withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities.
- usage: "a decentralized school administration"
- synonyms: decentralized
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