decentralizing

Definitions

The process of distributing functions, powers, people, or things away from a central location or authority.

The act of transferring control of an activity or organization to several local offices or authorities rather than one single head.

Examples

The company is decentralizing its operations to give regional managers more autonomy.

By decentralizing the power grid, the city hopes to increase its resilience against major outages.

Synonyms

distributing dispersing delegating spreading out devolving scattering partitioning

Antonyms

centralizing concentrating consolidating unifying centralising amalgamating integrating