decentralization

Examples of decentralizing

decentralizing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The city authorities attempted to overcome problems of communication following raids by decentralizing offices, establishing sub-organizations in the suburbs to co-ordinate relief within local communities.
These reforms consisted in decentralizing the responsibility for water supply from the state to the municipal level and in creating a separate regulatory framework.
Economists thus emphasize decentralizing economic decision-making authority from state organizations to individual enterprises.
This perception of the role of market prices corresponds exactly with their role in decentralizing decisions in a market economy.
Thus, a major sector organization observed that the decentralizing pressures on collective wage negotiations meant that 'fewer firms will need organizations to give them advice about collective bargaining'.
Commuter suburbs were developing and commerce was decentralizing outside the old city centre.
I ask him to tell us how he is going to carry out the agreed obligation of decongesting, decentralizing and redeveloping big towns unless there is a national authority.
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