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decentralising

decentralising is the present participle and gerund of decentralise.

Meaning of decentralise

Verb

decentralise (third-person singular simple present decentralises, present participle decentralising, simple past and past participle decentralised)

  1. (UK) To cause something to change from being concentrated at one point to being distributed across a number of points.
  2. To reduce the authority of a governing body by distributing that authority among several bodies.

Questions about decentralising

What is decentralising the present participle and gerund of?
Decentralising is the present participle and gerund of decentralise.

Words near decentralising in the dictionary

  1. decentralised
  2. decentralised planning
  3. decentraliser
  4. decentralisers
  5. decentralises
  6. decentralising
  7. decentralism
  8. decentralist
  9. decentralists
  10. decentralizable
  11. decentralization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: decentralising (page history and authors); decentralise (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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