decentalisation

1. 1.

   the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts

   Synonymsdecentralization

   Broadersocial process

Other forms of decentalisation

plural

decentalisations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about decentalisation

What does decentalisation mean?

decentalisation means "the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts".

How many syllables are in decentalisation?

decentalisation has 7 syllables: de-cen-ta-li-sa-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for decentalisation?

Close synonyms include decentralization. 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 decentalisation a common word?

decentalisation 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.