overcentralized

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adjective

Overly centralized or concentrated in authority.

Scrabble 30

Meanings

adjectiveovercentralized (comparative more overcentralized, superlative most overcentralized)

comparative more overcentralized · superlative most overcentralized

  1. Overly centralized or concentrated in authority.
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    As the military expert Anthony Cordesman, who has advised the U.S. Army in Afghanistan, explained in The Washington Post recently, it requires “a significant number” of U.S. reinforcements and time to do what the Kabul government has failed to do, because it remains “a grossly overcentralized government that is corrupt, is often a tool of power brokers and narco-traffickers, and lacks basic capacity in virtually every ministry.”

    2009 September 6, Thomas L. Friedman, “From Baby-Sitting to Adoption”, in New York Times

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APA

overcentralized. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overcentralized

MLA

“overcentralized.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overcentralized. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overcentralized,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overcentralized.

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