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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A government with strong central powers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("federal government" is a kind of...):
authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "federal government"):
U.S.; U.S. government; United States; United States government; US Government (the executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States)
Instance hyponyms:
Capital; Washington (the federal government of the United States)