Synonyms for federal
ˈfɛd ər əlfed·er·al

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1. Federal, Federal soldier, Union soldiernoun

   a member of the Union Army during the American Civil War

   Synonyms:
   federal official

   Antonyms:
   local, southern, unitary

2. Federal, Fed, federal officialadjective

   any federal law-enforcement officer

   Synonyms:
   federal official

   Antonyms:
   unitary, southern, local

3. federaladjective

   national; especially in reference to the government of the United States as distinct from that of its member units

   "the Federal Bureau of Investigation"; "federal courts"; "the federal highway program"; "federal property"

   Antonyms:
   southern, unitary, local

4. federaladjective

   of or relating to the central government of a federation

   "a federal district is one set aside as the seat of the national government"

   Antonyms:
   local, southern, unitary

5. Union, Federaladjective

   being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War

   "Union soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal infantryman"

   Antonyms:
   southern, local, unitary

6. federaladjective

   characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is divided between one central and several regional authorities

   "a federal system like that of the United States"; "federal governments often evolved out of confederations"

   Antonyms:
   unitary, southern, local

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1. federaladjective

   Synonyms:
   confederate

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1. List of paraphrases for "federal":

   fédéral, federation, federative, federally, fannie, fédérale, dominion, fã, federalism, federalist, canada, government, federated, service-wide

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1. Alondra Nelson:

   There were a lot of conversations about the relationship between transparency and accountability of federal science and technology, and how doing that well helps to restore trust in government, part of the exercise of having these public conversations was trying to begin to restore this trust -- to say to the American public, this is what we're doing, these are the issues that we're taking up, what you think that we should be doing or what are the issues that are of concern to you ?

2. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen:

   Most FOMC participants, including myself, currently anticipate that achieving these conditions will likely entail an initial increase in the federal funds rate later this year, followed by a gradual pace of tightening thereafter.

3. Joe Conlon:

   Down in Central and South America, they’re using these thermal foggers— that can work and knock down the mosquito, but in the U.S, they’re not going to allow federal and state folks to allow them into their homes to do that, it’s not something that mosquito abatement will do, but public pressure may make them do that. People might demand something like that of their own volition.

4. Katherine Archuleta:

   I want to emphasize that cyber security issues that the Government is facing is a problem that has been decades in the making, due to a lack of investment in federal IT systems and a lack of efforts in both the public and private sectors to secure our internet infrastructure.

5. Robert Maxim:

   It's worth underscoring how absurd it is that the descendants of the tribe that met Pilgrims, who every American learns about around this time of year, couldn't meet the definition of a' tribe,' it's just a perfect illustration of how messed up, and really, anti-Native, federal Indian policy has been throughout our history.