federated
English
editPronunciation
editVerb
editfederated
- simple past and past participle of federate
Adjective
editfederated (not comparable)
- United, as a federation, under a central government
- 1990, Frank Mecklenburg, Manfred Stassen, German Essays on Socialism in the Nineteenth Century[1]:
- As one of the results of these systems we have agrarian rule in nearly all the federated states of Germany.
- 1990, Frank Mecklenburg, Manfred Stassen, German Essays on Socialism in the Nineteenth Century[1]:
- (computing, telecommunications) Interconnected, as a federation or supernetwork of independent and interoperable services.
Usage notes
edit- States that are part of a federation are sometimes called federal states; see the entry for relative frequencies of federal state vs. federated state.