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

At the convention, he was an ardent "centralizer," but 10 years later he reversed himself by aligning with those wanting to recapture more state power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reviewing Ferdinand Lundberg's "Cracks in the Constitution"] Reference

It should try be an aggregator, not a centralizer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foldera: Never organize your inbox again] Reference

A strong centralizer, supporter of the Hungarian crusade.    From Wordnik.com.  [1448] Reference

It is itself a centralizer, gathering all this information about us under one corporate umbrella.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Facebook Effect] Reference

According to the BP notes, Guide and Walz "did not discuss stopping and ordering the correct style of centralizer.".    From Wordnik.com.  [BP cost-cutting measures are focus of U.S. inquiry into gulf spill] Reference

Alexander Hamilton — given his record as a Caesarian centralizer, rampaging war-luster, and the spiritual and political father of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2007 – December – 15] Reference

BP said in its internal report on the disaster that it released last month that its centralizer decision probably did not contribute to the cement's failure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doug Martin: BP Interfered With Critical Efforts To Stop Gulf Oil Spill] Reference

… Alexander Hamilton — given his record as a Caesarian centralizer, rampaging war-luster, and the spiritual and political father of U.S. state capitalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alexander Hamilton and the birth of American state capitalism] Reference

BP said that it did not do the other centralizer tests because the correct pieces of equipment were not available that night, and those on hand might have broken into pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Costly drilling effort might have rushed BP and Transocean on safety measures] Reference

There are lots of reasons to despise Alexander Hamilton — given his record as a Caesarian centralizer, rampaging war-luster, and the spiritual and political father of U.S. state capitalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2008 – April – 18] Reference

His moderate conservatism -- a synthesis of conservative giant Edmund Burke and Ur-centralizer Alexander Hamilton that has earned him the label of "liberals 'favorite conservative" -- may be anomalous.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Brooks Is Both Irrelevant And Essential: NYMag] Reference

The centralizer placement on the production casing, the drilling fluid conditioning program prior to cementing and the cement slurry and placement design used for this well were implemented as directed by the well owner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Halliburton Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Explosion: Testimony At Senate [Full Text]] Reference

BANNING: Well, there are many examples, but I guess the easiest way to put it maybe is to say that the Madison who is presented by me in this book is not as nationalistic a figure; he's not as much a centralizer as he is in much of the existing literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison & the Founding of the Federal Republic] Reference

His moderate conservatism -- a synthesis of conservative giant Edmund Burke and Ur-centralizer Alexander Hamilton that has earned him the label of "liberals 'favorite conservative" -- may be anomalous, but it allows him a kind of freedom that other, more partisan pundits lack.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Brooks Is Both Irrelevant And Essential: NYMag] Reference

He was a centralizer and a Federalist - the last of the Federalists.    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

Lincoln should be called the great centralizer rather than the great emancipator.    From Wordnik.com.  [LJWorld.com stories: News] Reference

BP installed fewer than one-third of the recommended number of centralizer devices, which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Science Monitor | All Stories] Reference

Pribičević, the arch-centralizer who scorns to wear the velvet glove, stays in the Government.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2] Reference

Like many men of strong will and commanding ability, he was a centralizer by instinct and in practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918] Reference

It may be obtained from a centralizer of a type 3C element of the monster group or as a subgroup of the Chevalley group E8 (F3), a reason why the Thompson group has a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reference Frame] Reference

That is offset by continued weakness in the mining business as well as the traditional year-end financial slowdown at Pemex which has had a meaningful impact on our centralizer business.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

In the one and the same speech, that is, Mr. Bryan placed himself on record as a radical centralizer of economic and political power and as a man who was on general principles afraid of centralization and opposed to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Promise of American Life] Reference

"You think so, Ezra," said he, "and it seems reasonable that big creameries like those at Omaha, Sioux City, Des Moines and the other centralizer points can make butter cheaper than we would do here -- but we've the figures that show that they aren't economical.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brown Mouse] Reference

Million over budget at the time the centralizer warning was raised.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

"You see," said Jim to his audience, meanwhile pouring the lemonade, "the centralizer creamery is uneconomic in several ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brown Mouse] Reference

"I can't allow you to depart," said Jim more gently than before, "without thanking you for the very excellent talk you gave us on the advantage of the cooperative creamery over the centralizer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brown Mouse] Reference

Though he had fought on the side of both autocratic centralizers and democratic federalists and had deposed the latest centralizer, he now embraced Bustamante’s governmental philosophy and fostered a new constitution to replace the 1824 document.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Country of Vast Designs] Reference

3) BP installed fewer than one-third of the recommended number of centralizer devices, which Transocean said had the effect of "dramatically increasing the risk of cement channeling and gas flow.".    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

Federalist -- a centralizer.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett] Reference

William I (the Conqueror), a man of medium height, corpulent, choleric, but majestic in person and a great soldier, governor, centralizer, legislator, innovator.    From Wordnik.com.  [b. The British Isles] Reference