Definition: 1. National; especially in reference to the government of the United States as distinct from that of its member units. 2. Of or relating to the central government of a federation. 3. Characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is divided between one central and several regional authorities.
Use 'federal' in a sentence:
1. Still others fear federal interference or control.
2. The defendants are expected to appear in federal court today.
3. The key is , how long can the federal government control the inflation rate?
4. Five of the six provinces are to become autonomous regions in a new federal system of government.
5. A federal judge dismissed the charges against the doctor yesterday.
6. Today is Presidents' Day, a federal holiday.
7. The federal government tried to control rising health-care costs.
8. Federal agencies should commercialize research.
9. The federal government controls just 6% of the education budget.
10. The federal government hiked the tax on hard liquor.
11. He does not believe in a federal Europe with centralising powers.
12. Federal leaders continued their efforts to secure a ceasefire.
13. Mr Milner persuaded the federal prosecutors not to lock up his client.
14. O'Leary served in federal energy posts in both the Ford and Carter administrations.
15. The Treasury plans to pay down about $1.58 billion on the federal debt.
16. A lot of what he's been hearing from the federal government is BS.
17. They are proscribed by federal law from owning guns.
18. Mr. Milner persuaded the federal prosecutors not to lock up his client.
19. New York City announced a 10-point policy patterned on the federal bill of rights for taxpayers.
20. I'm a federal employee. I work for the State Department.
21. Twenty-eight percent of the federal budget is spent on defence.
22. The 1985 federal budget allocated $7.3 billion for development programmes.
23. Two federal courts ruled that the military cannot deny prisoners access to lawyers.
24. He assigned federal agents to listen in on Martin Luther King's phone calls.
25. Twenty eight percent of the federal budget is spent on defense.
26. He lowballed the cost of the project in order to obtain federal funding.
27. South Carolina claimed the power to exempt its citizens from the obligation to obey federal law.
28. They're ready to cut the federal budget deficit for the next fiscal year.
29. The overriding problem is the continuing deficit financing of the federal government.
30. The Congressional Budget Office says the federal deficit shows every sign of getting larger.
31. The 1985 federal budget allocated$ 7.3 billion for development programmes.
32. The Federal Reserve Board is expected to raise interest rates.
33. The Federal Reserve lowered interest rates by half a point.
34. Many business groups have been pressing the Federal Reserve to loosen interest rates.
35. When the development bubble burst, federal regulators started probing the balance sheets of the biggest banks.
36. He has the distinction of being regarded as the Federal Republic's greatest living writer.
37. The Federal Republic must loosen its ties with the United States.
38. 100,000 federal workers will be laid off to reduce the deficit.
39. He proposes that businesses should pay taxes to the federal government.
40. A federal marshal was killed in a shoot-out.
41. The fund has been used largely to finance the construction of federal prisons.
42. Federal agents rushed him into a car.
43. Last month, a federal grand jury began mulling evidence in the case.
44. The new proposals would absorb$ 80 billion of the federal budget.
45. The key is, how long can the federal government control the inflation rate?
46. A Federal Court case had been fast tracked to Wednesday.
