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DECENTALISATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does decentalisation mean?
• DECENTALISATION (noun)
The noun DECENTALISATION has 1 sense:
1. the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts
Familiarity information: DECENTALISATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
decentalisation; decentralization
Hypernyms ("decentalisation" is a kind of...):
social process (a process involved in the formation of groups of persons)
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"The word goes out but the message is lost." (Corsican proverb)