centralising

1. 1.

   tending to draw to a central point

   Synonymscentralizing

   Similarcentripetalconsolidative

Questions about centralising

What does centralising mean?

centralising means "tending to draw to a central point".

How many syllables are in centralising?

centralising has 4 syllables: cen-tra-li-sing. The stress falls on "tra".

What is another word for centralising?

Close synonyms include centralizing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is centralising a common word?

centralising is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.