decentralization

decentralize | American Dictionary

decentralize
verb[ T ]
us/diˈsen·trəˌlɑɪz/
to move the operations of a business or other organization from a single, central place to several smaller ones:
The company uses an unusual decentralized distribution system.

decentralization

noun[ U ]us/ˌdiˌsen·trə·ləˈzeɪ·ʃən/
Many local people favor decentralization of the schools.

decentralize | Business English

decentralize
verb[ I or T ]
(UK alsodecentralise)uk /diːˈsentrəlaɪz/us
WORKPLACE, MANAGEMENT
if a large company or organization decentralizes or is decentralized, its activities are moved from one large central place to several different, smaller places:
HLL decentralized the production and distribution of the product in order to utilize the enormous labor pool in rural India.
As part of its plans to decentralize, the Japanese government has given greater tax-collecting authority to local governments.

decentralization

noun[ U ](UK alsodecentralisation)/ˌdiːsentrəlɪˈzeɪʃən/
the decentralization of the bank's operations

Examples of decentralize

decentralize
To enforce incentives to plant trees, afforestation responsibility was decentralized to local leaders in 1984.
Second, instead of solving central planner problems, decentralized equilibria could be considered.
How narrowly adapted are the products of decentralized breeding?
In other words, the planning problem corresponding to a decentralized monetary economy is always nonmonetary.
It involves geographically distributed nodes that are composed of a huge amount of entities and it is well demonstrated that the control cannot be decentralized.
In such systems, the aim is to achieve effective decentralized control through autonomous software agents that perform local decision-making based on incomplete and imperfect information.
The decentralized actors entered a voluntary agreement before the actual legislation.
Although autonomy is often one of the principal demands of regional parties,14 they are rarely in a political position to force countries to decentralize.
The first scenario leads to decentralized abatement-firms buying abatement at a fixed price-and the second to centralized abatement.
Again, the main result that the system cannot decentralize the social optimum does not change if only male labor is taxed.
And even if the structure of opportunities had provided more options, the movement was too fragmented and decentralized to develop a coherent political strategy.
Both themes reflect the expected response by administratively decentralized bodies to external pressure to improve their quality of service and efficiency of performance.
Other reforming countries have used direct worker or employer control to decentralize, enhance competition, and align decision-making with those whose interests are at stake.
The required communication bandwith is bounded and is not a function of the number of helicopters in the formation because the controllers are decentralized.
The important point is that the robots need only local state information and the algorithm is completely decentralized.
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