recentralize

verb

re·​cen·​tral·​ize (ˌ)rē-ˈsen-trə-ˌlīz 

recentralized; recentralizing; recentralizes

transitive + intransitive

: to concentrate or become concentrated by returning power that had previously been delegated to regional and local authorities to a central authority

To try to ease the crisis, President Peña Nieto has proposed a series of measures that would recentralize power.

—Enrique Krauze

Every state-by-state fiasco (and there would be many) would bring calls to recentralize …

—Ross Douthat

Examples of recentralize in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

It’s always been quite clear that under Xi Jinping there has been a huge attempt to recentralize control over the local apparatuses, and the nature of the lockdowns shows this. —Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2022

And then Microsoft figured out how to recentralize around software. —Dan Patterson, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1893, in the meaning defined above