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federal

AdjektivSubstantivhäufig in Dialogen

  • Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈfɛdəɹəl//
  • Vereinigtes Königreich/[ˈfɛdəɹəl] ~ [ˈfɛdəɹl̩]/
  • Kanada//ˈfɛdəɹəl//
  • Kanada/[ˈfɛdɚəl] ~ [ˈfɛdɹ̩l̩]/

Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations.

Adjektiv

  1. 1

    Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations.

    Yet the Romans, taking them [the Carthaginians] at an Advantage, vvhen they vvere in Streights; compell'd them, contrary to all Fœderal Right and Juſtice, by Nevv Articles, both to part with Sardinia, their Lavvful Territory, and alſo to pay them for the future, a Double Tribute.

  2. 2

    Pertaining to the national government level in a federal nation, as opposed to state, provincial, county, city, or town.

    That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare, that it views the powers of the federal government as resulting from the compact to which the states are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; [...]

  3. 3

    Relating to covenantalism.

    federal theology

Herkunft

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰós Proto-Italic *feiðos Latin foedusder. French fédéralder. English federal From French fédéral, from Latin stem foeder- of foedus (“covenant, league, treaty, alliance”).

Substantiv

  1. 1

    A federal agent or (chiefly law-enforcement) official.

  2. 2

    A federal agent or (chiefly law-enforcement) official. A law-enforcement official of the FBI.

  3. 3

    historischA Union soldier in the American Civil War.

  4. 4

    A supporter of federation.

Formen

Plural
federals
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