decentralization
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- n the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts
- n the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments
- Like New York, they are trying or considering experiments in decentralization, and some of the arguments for such experiments are persuasive.
- Like the President, he believes in decentralization of the public broadcasting system.
- Seizing upon Tito's experimental program of decentralization, which offered a measure of political and fiscal autonomy to Yugoslavia's six republics, Croatian nationalists .