centralized

[ sen-truh-lahyzd ]

adjective

1. controlled from one place:

   The individual police departments will transition to the centralized dispatch system beginning in October.

   After years of opting for top-down regulatory approaches, the new administration has decided to move toward a less centralized form of government oversight.

2. existing in one place, or being the center point of a network: The system allows users to record subscriber complaints in a single database, creating a centralized source of information to assist us in pinpointing systematic delivery problems.

   Each computer has a twisted-pair cable that runs to a centralized hub.

   The system allows users to record subscriber complaints in a single database, creating a centralized source of information to assist us in pinpointing systematic delivery problems.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of centralize ( def ).

Other Words From

• un·cen·tral·ized especially British, un·cen·tral·ised adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of centralized¹

centralize ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

But tapping into an LLM's power typically requires users to send their requests to a centralized server -- a process that's expensive, energy-intensive and often slow.

From Science Daily

“We need to be thinking in a more distributed fashion than the centralized systems that are currently being imagined and proposed,” Winter said.

From Los Angeles Times

Other countries have more centralized mechanisms of regulating unclaimed individuals, Balta said.

From Salon

After Wells Fargo was mired in a 2013 scandal over employees who opened millions of fake banking accounts, the bank created a new centralized unit to review customer complaints and employees’ allegations of workplace abuses.

From Los Angeles Times

It disbands a myriad of existing working groups and replaces them with a centralized system.

From Los Angeles Times

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