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Centralize   Listen
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Centralize  v. t.  (past & past part. centralized; pres. part. centralizing)  To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control. "(To) centralize the power of government."






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"Centralize" Quotes from Famous Books



... citizen despises agricultural work and manual labor in general, especially for women. His aim is to centralize labor by means of machinery and commerce, so as to concern himself only with business, intellectual occupations and sport. American women consider muscular work and labor in the country as degrading to their sex. This is a relic of the days of slavery, when all manual labor was left ...
— The Sexual Question - A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study • August Forel

... there would be no need now for the Department of the Interior to assert its authority. Show me, Mr. Delegate, that there are neither politics nor monopolistic dreams in Idaho's attitude toward her Water Power problem and I'd begin to de-centralize ...
— The Enchanted Canyon • Honore Willsie Morrow

... Each of the contracting governments agrees to establish or designate an authority who will be directed to centralize information concerning the procuration of women and girls, for the purpose of their debauchery in a foreign country: That authority shall be empowered to correspond directly with the similar service established in each ...
— Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls - War on the White Slave Trade • Various

... the Constitution of the state."[1] Yet within a year, in order to annul the power of their opponents in every county in the state, the new party so amended the Constitution as to take away from every county the power of self-government and centralize everything in the legislature. Now was realized an extent of power over elections and election returns so great that no party could wholly clear itself of the ...
— A Social History of the American Negro • Benjamin Brawley

... and the German avalanche which overwhelmed Belgium. Her banks were converted into hospitals; her industry lay prostrate; her people faced starvation. Some vital agency was necessary to centralize relief at home in the same way that the Commission for Relief in Belgium,—the famous "C. R. B."—crystallized ...
— An African Adventure • Isaac F. Marcosson



Words linked to "Centralize" :   decentralise, centralise, deconcentrate, alter, modify, centralization, change, decentralize, concentrate



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