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FEDERALISM
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The idea of a federal organization of more or less self-governing units
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("federalism" is a kind of...):
ideology; political orientation; political theory (an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation)
Derivation:
federalist (an advocate of federalism)