overcentralised
overcentralised is the alternative form of overcentralized.
overcentralised is the simple past and past participle of overcentralise.
Meaning of overcentralized
Adjective
overcentralized (comparative more overcentralized, superlative most overcentralized)
- Overly centralized or concentrated in authority.
- As the military expert Anthony Cordesman, who has advised the U.S. Army in Afghanistan, explained in The Washington Post recently, it requires “a significant number” of U.S. reinforcements and time to do what the Kabul government has failed to do, because it remains “a grossly overcentralized...2009 September 6, Thomas L. Friedman, “From Baby-Sitting to Adoption”, in New York Times
Forms of overcentralised
| comparative | more overcentralised |
|---|---|
| superlative | most overcentralised |
Origin of overcentralised
From over- + centralised.
Questions about overcentralised
- What is overcentralised the alternative form of?
- Overcentralised is the alternative form of overcentralized.
Words near overcentralised in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: overcentralised (page history and authors); overcentralized (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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