In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DECENTRALISE
decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise
(verb) make less central; “After the revolution, food distribution was decentralized”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
decentralise (third-person singular simple present decentralises, present participle decentralising, simple past and past participle decentralised)
(British spelling) To cause something to change from being concentrated at one point to being distributed across a number of points.
To reduce the authority of a governing body by distributing that authority among several bodies.
Anagrams
• deinterlaces
Source: Wiktionary
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