Word Meanings - CENTRALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control. centralize the power of government. Bancroft.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CENTRALIZE)

• Concentrate
• assemble
• converge
• muster
• congregate
• convene
• draw
• conglomerate
• condense
• localize
• centralize

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CENTRALIZE)

• Dismiss
• disperse
• relegate
• remit
• disband

Related words: (words related to CENTRALIZE)

• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• DISMISS
  1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.
• ASSEMBLE
  To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate. Thither he assembled all his train. Milton. All the men of Israel assembled themselves. 1 Kings viii. 2. (more info) together to collect; L. ad +
• DISPERSED
  Scattered. -- Dis*pers"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pers"ed*ness, n. Dispersed harmony , harmony in which the tones composing the chord are widely separated, as by an octave or more.
• CONDENSER
  An apparatus for receiving and condensing the volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, condenses. 2. An instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting
• CENTRALIZE
  To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control. centralize the power of government. Bancroft.
• LOCALIZE
  To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place. H. Spencer. Wordsworth.
• REMITTEE
  One to whom a remittance is sent.
• ASSEMBLER
  One who assembles a number of individuals; also, one of a number assembled.
• CONCENTRATE
  1. To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of light into a focus; to concentrate the attention. concentrated whole force at his own
• DISPERSE
  1. To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations. The lips of the wise disperse knowledge. Prov. xv. 7. Two lions, in the still, dark night, A herd of
• REMITTAL
  A remitting; a giving up; surrender; as, the remittal of the first fruits. Swift.
• REMITMENT
  The act of remitting, or the state of being remitted; remission. Disavowing the remitment of Claudius. Milton.
• CONDENSE
  To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water. Condensed milk, milk reduced to the consistence of very thick cream by evaporation for preservation and transportation.
• CONVENER
  1. One who convenes or meets with others. 2. One who calls an assembly together or convenes a meeting; hence, the chairman of a committee or other organized body.
• CONVERGE
  To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge. The mountains converge into a single ridge. Jefferson.
• REMITTITUR
  A remission or surrender, -- remittitur damnut being a remission of excess of damages. A sending back, as when a record is remitted by a superior to an inferior court. Wharton.
• DISPERSER
  One that disperses.
• REMITTENT
  Remitting; characterized by remission; having remissions. Remittent fever , a fever in which the symptoms temporarily abate at regular intervals, but do not wholly cease. See Malarial fever, under Malarial.
• SUPREMITY
  Supremacy. Fuller.
• EREMITE
  A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.
• HEREMITICAL
  Of or pertaining to a hermit; solitary; secluded from society. Pope.
• INDISPERSED
  Not dispersed.
• REASSEMBLE
  To assemble again.
• PENTREMITES
  A genus of crinoids belonging to the Blastoidea. They have five petal-like ambulacra.
• HEREMIT; HEREMITE
  A hermit. Bp. Hall.
• EREMITISM
  The state of a hermit; a living in seclusion from social life.
• PREMIT
  To premise. Donne.