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decentralize

CEFR C2

to distribute decision-making authority away from a single central point

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Six example sentences with decentralize, each labelled with its topic.

  • The reform would decentralize school funding, letting each county set its own budget instead of waiting on the capital.

    Politics

  • Engineers chose to decentralize storage so that no one datacenter failure could take the whole archive offline.

    Technology

  • After the merger the founders moved to decentralize hiring, giving regional managers full say over their own teams.

    Business

  • Some economists argue that countries should decentralize tax collection so that regions compete on how well they spend it.

    Economics

  • The exchange planned to decentralize custody, so that no single company could freeze every customer's holdings at once.

    Finance

  • At forty employees the founders decided to decentralize product decisions, letting each squad ship without waiting for their approval.

    Startups

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