What does «federalizar» mean in Spanish?
- To organize in federation or to make a pact between several.
- To make a city, territory, system, organism, etc. dependent on the central power.
Examples of use in Spanish: "el sistema de salud se va a federalizar en ocho estados de México".
- It can mean centralizing or decentralizing, depending on the context. To federalize a decentralized system means to centralize it (that it depends on a federal power). Federalizing a centralized system means decentralizing it (extending it throughout the federation).