Picture several states each running their own daily affairs, but all bound together under one shared central government for the big things (defence, currency). 'Federal' describes that two-layer arrangement — and then, by extension, points to that top central layer itself.
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Federalnoun
- 1
A member of a Federal Party
- 2
Someone on the Union side.
Federalname
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A locality in the Byron council area, north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.
federaladj/ˈfɛdəɹəl/
- 1
Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations.
- Yet the Romans, taking them [the Carthaginians] at an Advantage, vvhen they vvere in Streights; compell'd them, contrary to all Fœderal Right and Juſtice, by Nevv Articles, both to part with Sardinia, their Lavvful Territory, and alſo to pay them for the future, a Double Tribute.
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Pertaining to the national government level in a federal nation, as opposed to state, provincial, county, city, or town.
- That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare, that it views the powers of the federal government as resulting from the compact to which the states are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; [...]
- From April 1995 to May 1996, the Subcommittee on Crime of the House Committee on the Judiciary and the Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs, and Criminal Justice of the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight jointly conducted an investigation into the actions of the Federal agencies involved in law enforcement activities near Waco, TX in late 1992 and early 1993 toward a group known as the Branch Davidians.
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lifestylereligiontheologyRelating to covenantalism.
- federal theology
federalnoun/ˈfɛdəɹəl/
- 1
A federal agent or (chiefly law-enforcement) official.
- 2
A federal agent or (chiefly law-enforcement) official.
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historicalA Union soldier in the American Civil War.
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A supporter of federation.
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