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Etymology

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re- +‎ federate

Verb

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refederate (third-person singular simple present refederates, present participle refederating, simple past and past participle refederated)

  1. To federate again.
    • 2014, Graham Smith, Federalism: The Multiethnic Challenge, page 157:
      Finally, the chapter explores how the new Russian state has attempted to refederate its own multiethnic society following the defederation of the Soviet Union in 1991.