"decentralise" meaning in All languages combined

See decentralise on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

IPA: /diːˈsɛntrəlaɪz/ [UK] Audio: en-us-decentralize.ogg [US] Forms: decentralise [canonical], decentralises [third-person, singular], decentralised [past], decentralised [past, participle], decentralising [present, participle]
Etymology: de- + centralise Etymology templates: {{ety-prefix|de|centralise}} de- + centralise Head templates: {{verb|decentralis|e}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If you decentralise a meeting, you change it from being concentrated at one point to being distributed across a number of points.
    Sense id: simple-decentralise-en-verb-aisc8oQu
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms prefixed with de-
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