A decentralized school administration.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

It is possible to build applications for participating in decentralized conversations around various ideas and trends.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Web at a New Crossroads | FactoryCity] Reference

All part of what Clyde Grubbs recently described as decentralized distribution networks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: Felt-board Sunday school lessons in the news.] Reference

I do care about the technology behind Napster and Grokster -- about the kind of decentralized system it represents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference

Ecologists, too, have learned to respect the kind of decentralized self-organization that occurs at every level of living systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

Even if he doesn 't work much at backing his theory about the sun' s "decentralized" place in our lives, Mr. Cohen is surely right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twinkle, Twinkle, Giant Star] Reference

It is decentralized, meaning: Excel can't keep raising the rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

This committee was to select the locations of the "decentralized" reserve banks.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

This NY Times article explains how the Yankees have a 'decentralized' team with no strong leader.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Sweater, White Cat] Reference

"decentralized" fashion than Wachovia, without a specific headquarters location for a unit such as Wealth Management.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greensboro Business News - Local Greensboro News | The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area] Reference

America thrives in part because it's decentralized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington Disconnected] Reference

Does all this seem too complicated or decentralized?.    From Wordnik.com.  [ONLINE EVERYTHING] Reference

Text plays a new, decentralized role in our society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Claire Gordon: Txtspk 4eva] Reference

We've decentralized media production and distribution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Max Gladwell: 10 Ways Geolocation is Changing the World] Reference

Now just as culture has become decentralized, so has creativity.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Build A Creative City] Reference

"The decentralized system worked here for thousands of years," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [NO MORE ILLUSIONS] Reference

And though American society is adversarial, decision-making is decentralized.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Reversal] Reference

He abolished the agricultural communes and decentralized economic decision making.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philosopher And The Pragmatist] Reference

A decentralized and divided polity has punched well below its weight internationally.    From Wordnik.com.  [India’s Coming-Out Party] Reference

This summer McDonald's shook up and decentralized management to get closer to franchisees.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Really Big Mac] Reference

On the Democrats, they tend to be more disorganized and decentralized than the Republicans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Question Time] Reference

The upside of the decentralized system is that it leaves local Habitat volunteers energized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Building Success] Reference

One of the safeguards that we used to have was that a lot of our information was decentralized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Q&Amp;A: Prying Eyes] Reference

Breaking up Washington: Anyone remember the last time the government was decentralized and weak?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlook: Breaking up Washington] Reference

It is decentralized, driven by self-interest, excellent at the high end, and increasingly unequal.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Are What We Treat] Reference

The EU is decentralized, legislative, nonpartisan, regulatory, quasi-common law and highly judicial.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Are You Now Charles De Gaulle?] Reference

One of the results of this vastness is, in Worster's words, "a very decentralized literary culture.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Fence Them Out] Reference

The organization is clever, and the more decentralized the organization is, the more effective it can be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bin Laden's Imprint] Reference

We could have workers scattered all over the USA and connect by computer for truly decentralized functions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlook: Breaking up Washington] Reference

The signal apparatus of the information age is the computer network: flexible, fast, decentralized, customized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conundrum In The Classroom] Reference

If the energy grid were smarter -- more decentralized and democratized, like the Internet -- it would go both ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Power People] Reference

He rails against the destructive "ideology" that celebrates the decentralized, semi-anarchic structure of the Internet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Internet Crash Scare] Reference

"Unavoidably," writes Rothschild, "the rise of the railroads undermined the decentralized vision of America's Founders.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Events And Arguments] Reference

"The fine arts are dead," he explains, "and we're taking advantage of decentralized media to create a new cultural forum.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Do We Go After The Rave?] Reference

And so I thought, in that context, it could be plausible, and told him, "Hey, in IDG we're very decentralized -- you decide.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Still Standing, Pat] Reference

"Culture today is globalized and decentralized," says Vanessa Swartz, a history professor at the University of Southern California.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Build A Creative City] Reference

Also, the zoo did not have a centralized commissary, which allows better control of the diets than you get when it's decentralized.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Disaster?] Reference

In fact, that day may have already come, but Germany is so decentralized and its Lander so powerful, that a new Bismarck is unthinkable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Germany At A Turning Point] Reference

Its diamond industry is highly decentralized, with thousands of miners sifting through alluvial soil for the gem that will make them rich.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sifting Through A Dark Business] Reference