decentralised
/diːˈsɛntrəlaɪzd/
adjective
- Having power, authority, or decision-making spread out from a central point to smaller, local groups or regions.
- A decentralised organisation often responds faster to local needs than a centralised one.
- The company's decentralised structure allows each store to choose its own suppliers.
- The country has a decentralised education system where each province sets its own curriculum.
- Describing a system, especially in technology or finance, that operates without a single central authority or server, using a distributed network instead.
- Bitcoin is a decentralised digital currency that no government controls.
- The rise of decentralised finance allows people to lend and borrow money without a bank.
- Decentralised apps, or dApps, run on blockchain networks rather than a single company's servers.
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