1801, especially of administrative power, originally with reference to Napoleonic France and on model of French centralisation. See centralize + -ation.

The degree to which information must flow through a specific central member of a communication network. [GB]

Power and authority concentrated into a few offices.

The extent to which a central group controls the determination of and the practice of administration of salaries, most commonly, across organizational units. The degree of centralization or decentrali [..]

The spatial regrouping of activities into larger units. May refer to reductions in numbers of service units of the welfare state or movements back into central cities. Contrast with decentralization.

(n) the act of consolidating power under a central control(n) gathering to a center

Concentration of processes, practices and procedures into a single location, role and/or mechanism.

Concentration of processes, practices and procedures into a single location, role and/or mechanism

This refers to the act of moving your Pieces - one or more - toward the Center of the chessboard.

The act or process of centralizing, or the state of being centralized; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole; as, the centralization of power in the general governme [..]