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What (who) is federal - definition
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Foederal; Fœderal; Federal (disambiguation); Federals; Foederals; Fœderals
federal
(federals)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A federal country or system of government is one in which the different states or provinces of the country have important powers to make their own laws and decisions.
Five of the six provinces are to become autonomous regions in a new federal system of government.
ADJ: ADJ n
2.
Some people use federal to describe a system of government which they disapprove of, in which the different states or provinces are controlled by a strong central government.
He does not believe in a federal Europe with centralising powers.
ADJ: ADJ n [disapproval]
3.
Federal also means belonging or relating to the national government of a federal country rather than to one of the states within it.
The federal government controls just 6% of the education budget.
...a federal judge.
ADJ: ADJ n
• federally
...residents of public housing and federally subsidized apartments.
ADV: ADV -ed
4.
Federals are the same as feds
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federal
a.
1.
Treaty, founded on or relating to treaty, pertaining to alliance.
2.
Confederate, federated.
federal
¦ adjective
1. having or relating to a system of government in which several states form a unity but remain independent in internal affairs.
2. relating to or denoting the central government as distinguished from the separate units constituting a federation.
(Federal) US historical of the Northern States in the Civil War.
Derivatives
federalism noun
federalist noun & adjective
federalization or federalisation noun
federalize or federalise verb
federally adverb
Origin
C17: from L. foedus, foeder- 'league, covenant' + -al.
Examples of use of federal
1. However, federal law prohibits using federal money for that purpose.
2. A federal judge and a federal appeals court panel agreed.
3. Also the creation of new federal agencies boosted numbers, such as the Federal Drug Control Service, the Federal Agency for Registering Real Estate, the Federal Financial Monitoring Service and Federal Service for Financial Markets, Panfilova said.
4. The selected agencies include the Federal Migration Service, the Federal Registration Service and the Federal Labor and Employment Service.
5. The ministers who called on the Prime Minister and took oath of offices are : Federal Minister Mr Mohammad Ali Durrani, Federal Minister Mr Zahid Hamid, Federal Minister Mrs Nilofer Bakhtiar, Federal Minister Ms Sumera Malik, Federal Minister Mr Salim Saifullah, Federal Minister Mr Amir Muqam, Minister of State Mr.