Verb (used with object) : to centralize budgeting in one agency.    From Dictionary.com. 

My concern is that this is being proposed by a government which evidently has no problem with the idea of centralised censorship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crikey » Canberra Calling] Reference

Budget decisions now fall prey to a remote bureaucracy characterised by what Garling describes as centralised and immature management practices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Green Left Weekly issue #746] Reference

Klaus has frequently opposed giving up competencies to the EU, which he sees as too "centralised".    From Wordnik.com.  [The only leader worth voting for] Reference

Sparks have been flying on some of the more important issues such as centralised bargaining, the closed shop and workplace forums.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

So the same kind of centralised, top-down, autocratic environment was required for cultivation of analogue telegraphy and telephony as for the railways that preceded it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Restructuring II: The next ism « BuzzMachine] Reference

KwaZulu/Natal (two non-ANC-governed provinces) to make decisions at their convenience, as they would be hamstrung by "centralised" provincial local government committees.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Regarding its new 'centralised' structure, Lundgren said Macy's Inc. will now have central offices overseeing buying, merchandise planning, marketing and stores operations.    From Wordnik.com.  [India eNews] Reference

However, centralised cleaning involves transport of the filter material.    From Wordnik.com.  [8. Classification of roughing filters] Reference

The second suggestion is that "office stationery orders should be centralised".    From Wordnik.com.  [Now that cuts are accepted, we must all decide our fate] Reference

Only a centralised politburo would have come up with the present transport system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference

This was despite having turned Downing Street into a furnace of centralised power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blair's job was done by 1997: to numb Labour, and to enshrine Thatcherism] Reference

It was ten years later before William M. Tweed centralised Tammany's power in one man.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

The right question is "why on earth was power in the UK kept centralised for so long?".    From Wordnik.com.  [MELBOURNE SCOTS SPEECH] Reference

His own dream is of a beautifully centralised control, directing all our traffic agencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 26, 1919] Reference

First, it was thought that a centralised programme of such magnitude was far too ambitious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

The energy sector has evolved as a capital-intensive, expert-dominated, centralised sector.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8] Reference

Large centralised political parties were created because of the existence of the mass media.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

Industries tend to become centralised -- the fittest survive and grow, the unfit wither away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union] Reference

Several steps are needed to make or to keep centralised district heating systems competitive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

The future of search is not just centralised, but for energy economic reasons is distributed as P2P.    From Wordnik.com.  [Google Holding Chrome OS Event Thursday. Complete Overview And Launch Plans To Be Revealed.] Reference

Urban vehicle fleets, on the other hand, can operate with relatively few centralised fuelling stations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 8] Reference

For all his talk about devolving power, Mr Cameron has as Tory leader centralised power at every opportunity.    From Wordnik.com.  [In this week's issue] Reference

· Must be manufactured in centralised factories requiring high level of management skill and quality control.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

He favours centralised control over public services, and has stood athwart Blair's pro-market 'choice' agenda.    From Wordnik.com.  [FRASER NELSON] Reference

Both of these priorities indicated that centralised production of complete stoves in Nairobi was inappropriate.    From Wordnik.com.  [4.1) Market research] Reference

The centralised deductions concept is not about wages being centrally administered by HMRC or any other agency.    From Wordnik.com.  [HMRC considers 'centralising' tax system] Reference

In fact, it shows a lack of understanding of what Twitter actually is because Twitter is inherently centralised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twitter Should Decentralize (And Make Money) Via Twitter Server] Reference

Both centralised and decentralised energy technologies and strategies can make contributions to reaching these ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10] Reference

Conversely, capital cost and dependence on centralised fuel cycles also tend to increase with movement up the ladder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10] Reference

Scotland runs a centralised system that costs about £15 per learner, which is more what we should be looking to achieve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young People's Learning Agency takes over college funding] Reference

But sustainable reform needs to address the major underlying problem: the structure of UK taxation is far too centralised.    From Wordnik.com.  [An alternative to the Barnett Formula] Reference

Furthermore, the weakness of a highly centralised approach to administration of the Ministry of Agriculture was recognised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

If you consider freedom and democracy such a standard then fine but why does it need to be controlled by a centralised authority?.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

This tendency is apt to crush individual enterprise, and cause men to place entire reliance upon external aid and centralised power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference

Athenian power centralised in Potidaea, a little south of Olynthus, and on the other side of the Gulf of Therma in Pydna and Methone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Authors of Greece] Reference

At the core is a new generation's understanding that new communications have made centralised secretive control impossible to maintain.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

For these old Labour voters, the expenses turmoil is final proof that the centralised, Blairised Labour party has deserted its faithful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference