decentralize Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb make less central
    decentralise; deconcentrate.
    • After the revolution, food distribution was decentralized

WordNet

De*cen"tral*ize transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To prevent from centralizing; to cause to withdraw from the center or place of concentration; to divide and distribute (what has been united or concentrated); -- esp. said of authority, or the administration of public affairs.

Webster 1913