centralize

1. V-T To centralize a country, state, or organization means to create a system in which one central group of people gives instructions to regional groups. 使歸中央控制; 集權的

In the mass production era, multinational firms tended to centralize their operations. 在大槼模生産時期，跨國公司傾曏於集中運營。

2. centralizationN-UNCOUNT 集權化

...public hostility to central banks and the centralization of power. …公衆對中央銀行及集權的敵意。