Federal

['fed(ə)r(ə)l] or ['fɛdərəl]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) any federal law-enforcement officer.

(noun.) a member of the Union Army during the American Civil War.

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) of or relating to the central government of a federation; 'a federal district is one set aside as the seat of the national government' .

整理:普雷斯利--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations; constituted by a compact between parties, usually governments or their representatives.

(a.) Composed of states or districts which retain only a subordinate and limited sovereignty, as the Union of the United States, or the Sonderbund of Switzerland.

(a.) Consisting or pertaining to such a government; as, the Federal Constitution; a Federal officer.

(a.) Friendly or devoted to such a government; as, the Federal party. see Federalist.

(n.) See Federalist.

編輯:梅布尔

同義詞及近義詞：

a. Confederate.

盖尔校對

解釋/意思:

adj. pertaining to or consisting of a treaty or covenant: confederated founded upon mutual agreement: of a union or government in which several states while independent in home affairs combine for national or general purposes as in the United States (in the American Civil War Federal was the name applied to the states of the North which defended the Union against the Confederate separatists of the South).—n. a supporter of federation: a Unionist soldier in the American Civil War.—n. Fed′eracy.—v.t. Fed′eralise.—ns. Fed′eralism the principles or cause maintained by federalists; Fed′eralist a supporter of a federal constitution or union; Fed′erary (Shak.) a confederate.—adj. Fed′erāte united by league: confederated.—n. Federā′tion the act of uniting in league: a federal union.—adj. Fed′erātive united in league.—Federal (or Covenant) theology that first worked out by Cocceius (1603-69) based on the idea of two covenants between God and man—of Works and of Grace (see Covenant).

編輯:威拉