DECONCENTRATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deconcentrate mean? 

• DECONCENTRATE (verb)
  The verb DECONCENTRATE has 1 sense:

1. make less central

  Familiarity information: DECONCENTRATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECONCENTRATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they deconcentrate    ... he / she / it deconcentrates   
Past simple: deconcentrated   
Past participle: deconcentrated   
-ing form: deconcentrating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make less central

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

decentralise; decentralize; deconcentrate

Context example:

After the revolution, food distribution was decentralized

Hypernyms (to "deconcentrate" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deconcentrate"):

federalise; federalize (put under the control and authority of a federal government)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

concentrate (make central)