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

We must give up the idea of centralising, controlling, coordinating and planning in a conventional way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nonprofit Online News] Reference

Meanwhile, some Muslim organisations and social workers in the city have been propagating the idea of centralising zakat collection and disbursement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily News & Analysis] Reference

Before Christmas, the Department of Health distanced itself from the idea of centralising bookings, saying there were "no plans" for a national call centre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

(aka centralising ownership) they could increase profits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tyee - Home] Reference

Bundred made a veiled criticism of the department, saying it had a "centralising" view of the NHS and failed to understand the "autonomy proposed for hospitals".    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Microsoft is centralising everything around Live. com.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor Web 2.0 fools « Squash] Reference

He erred in his civil administration by too much centralising.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meditations] Reference

But the most power centralising, "we know best" PM in living memory?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brainbox] Reference

It differs, he says, from the centralising approach of Joseph Stalin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Changing the brand] Reference

I still think that Brown's centralising bent will lose it for Labour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going further on welfare reform] Reference

And, just maybe, was scaling back its centralising, federalist ambitions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The godfather of Europe] Reference

Mulder said South Africa was increasingly centralising its government functions.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

And those who sought centralising power didn't want indepedent, confident citizens.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

The Cold War also means that the centralising trend of governments has come to an end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reforms for the New Millennium] Reference

Thabo Mbeki, who has been in office since 1999, for centralising power in the presidency.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Through centralising procurement at head office, the company expected to get better prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Transformation appeared to mean centralising the powers of the provinces in Mbeki's office.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Selebi in Pretoria on Friday to discuss the centralising of police media liaison departments.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The EU constitution comes in for criticism as well, as reinforcing the centralising tendency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

The principle of centralising the management of the province in Pietersburg has been accepted.    From Wordnik.com.  [EASTERN CAPE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT] Reference

Alex Massie ponders the contradiction in a leader who says he will decentralise by centralising.    From Wordnik.com.  [The week that was] Reference

There are, of course, errors of foresight; but these would not be avoided by centralising decisions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money] Reference

Nonetheless, the DWP has been the only department developing a non-centralising agenda during the Brown regime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

Another problem lies in the centralising instincts which have not yet been weeded out of his decentralising plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics] Reference

"It is an opportunistic move by a government obsessed with centralising control at the expenses of good governance.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Look at them: closing REDAs and centralising everything in Enterprise Sask; spending public money on a football stadium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Liberal Party Of Saskatchewan Is NOT A Real Political Party] Reference

But judging by a report in The Times today the leadership is thinking about centralising power even more when in office.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cameron would intensify No. 10's spin operation] Reference

Vote, he said the ANC was increasingly intent on centralising power, irrespective of the tension it knew this would lead to.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Why would our national leaders wish to cede their power to a centralising body - as it seems they do - any more than you or I?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dream of The Super State] Reference

SADC was looking at centralising its various units into five different directorates, executive secretary Dr Prega Ramsamy said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The economics of centralising the heat supply of a certain area is regarded not as a question of profitability, but a historical fact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

That rather epitomises the very nature of "old Europe" – an inflexible, centralising construct, divorced from the needs of the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smug] Reference

Ifreaders gave meone pound sterling for each hit, I could now buy one tenth of the cost of centralising our Force Communications Centre.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

Mangosuthu Buthelezi accused the ANC-led government of centralising government functions and curtailing powers of provincial governments.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

We are told that we are centralising control of education, when it was this government that created school governing bodies as democratic instruments.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

At other times, Dos Santos has faced accusations of over-centralising power, at one stage serving as prime minister as well as president and MPLA leader.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The Southern African Development Community was looking at centralising its different units into five different directorates, executive secretary Dr Prega.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Sapa the rumours were "scurrilous attempts" by sections of the media to reinforce suggestions that Mbeki was centralising power by redeploying his political allies.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

"We have launched a concerted drive to solve all these unsolved (terror) cases and this has meant centralising and consolidating the investigative process," Capt Kotze told.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference