adj
Of, pertaining to, or divided into cantons.
n
A city (or cities) much larger or more important to a country than all others, regardless of the actual seat of government (cf., Moscow and Saint Petersburg regardless of moves of the Russian government; Amsterdam despite the Dutch government having been situated in The Hague since 1588).
n
(India) The national government of India, in contrast to government at the state or territorial level.
n
(US, politics) Ellipsis of Coalition of the Willing.; The coalition of nations operating under United States command against Iraq, in the U.S.-Iraq War (Gulf War II; "Iraq War") and its aftermath.
v
(obsolete) To confederate.
adj
Of, pertaining to, or being a confederation.
n
(psychology) An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher.
n
Synonym of Confederate States of America
n
A union or alliance of states or political organizations.
adj
Relating to a confederation.
n
(obsolete) A confederate.
n
Archaic spelling of confederacy. [An alliance.]
adj
Archaic spelling of confederate. [of, relating to, or united in a confederacy]
v
Archaic spelling of confederated; simple past tense and past participle of confœderate
n
Archaic spelling of confederation. [A union or alliance of states or political organizations.]
n
A form of federalism in which national, state, and local governments interact cooperatively and collectively to solve common problems, rather than making separate but similar policies.
n
(historical) sugar, tobacco, cotton and indigo - the goods that the English colonies could export only to England in the 17th century
n
(Canada, in the plural) The Canadian federal government.
n
A form of government where one or several substate units enjoy considerably more independence than the majority.
adj
Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations.
n
a central executive council in certain governments.
n
Any of several forms of government of federations.
n
A non-sovereign state that is part of a federation, especially part of Germany or Austria.
n
A system of national government in which power is divided between a central authority and a number of regions with delimited self-governing authority.
n
(obsolete) A confederate; an accomplice.
n
A member of a federation.
n
Any society or organisation formed from separate groups or bodies.
adj
Federative; pertaining to, characteristic of, or constituting a federation.
n
(uncommon) Tendency or preference towards having a federational structure, a federation, in which distinct bodies are united.
adj
Uniting in a league; forming a confederacy, a federation; federal.
n
Any of the twenty-six states or the federal district of Brazil.
n
(Ancient Rome) The public treasury of Rome.
n
Archaic spelling of federacy. [A form of government where one or several substate units enjoy considerably more independence than the majority.]
adj
Archaic spelling of federal. [Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations.]
n
Archaic spelling of federalism. [A system of national government in which power is divided between a central authority and a number of regions with delimited self-governing authority.]
adj
Obsolete form of federal. [Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations.]
adv
Obsolete form of federally. [In a federal manner.]
adj
Obsolete form of federate. [Federated, united in an alliance or federation.]
n
Archaic spelling of federation. [Act of joining together into a single political entity.]
adj
Obsolete form of federative. [Uniting in a league; forming a confederacy, a federation; federal.]
n
(Canada) The Canadian public health insurance system.
n
(historical) A borough that was represented in Parliament although it had very few voters.
n
(US, historical) Synonym of Confederate: a citizen of the Confederate States of America.
n
(especially US) a park managed by the federal state in which it is situated.
n
A form of government in which the powers of all provincial and local governments are specified by a single national government.
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