centralise
verb
centralise is a verb meaning “Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of centralize” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-E-N-T-R-A-L-I-S-E, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does centralise mean?
verb
- 1
UKNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of centralize.
The government decided to centralise the issuing of passports.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce centralise?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-centralise.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of centralise
- centralises present, singular, he/she/it
- centralising participle, present
- centralised participle, past
- centralize US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is centralise?
Centralise appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 111,684th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does centralise come from?
From central + -ise.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).