decentralised

1. 1.

   withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities

   “a decentralized school administration”

   Synonymsdecentralized

   Similarlocalizedredistributedsuburbanized

Questions about decentralised

What does decentralised mean?

decentralised means "withdrawn from a center or place of concentration; especially having power or function dispersed from a central to local authorities".

How many syllables are in decentralised?

decentralised has 4 syllables: decen-tra-li-sed. The stress falls on "tra".

What is another word for decentralised?

Close synonyms include decentralized. 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 decentralised a common word?

decentralised 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.