fed

¹

[fed]

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of feed.

fed

²

[fed]

noun

1. (sometimes initial capital letter),  a federal official or law-enforcement officer.

Fed

³

[fed]

noun

1. Informal.,  the Fed, the Federal Reserve System.

2. the Federal Reserve Board.

fed.

⁴

abbreviation

1. federal.

2. federated.

3. federation.

Fed.

⁵

abbreviation

1. Federal.

Fed.

¹

abbreviation

1. Federal

2. Federation

3. Federated

fed

²

/ fɛd /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of feed

2. informal,  bored or annoyed

Fed

³

/ fɛd /

noun

1. informal,  the Federal Reserve Bank or Federal Reserve Board

fed

⁴

/ fɛd /

noun

1. slang,  an agent of the FBI

Word History and Origins

Origin of Fed.¹

First recorded in 1915–20; by shortening

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. fed up, impatient; disgusted; bored.

   They were fed up with the same old routine.

Example Sentences

All of those within the hive need fed and the Asian hornet can eat up to 50 honey bees a day.

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Voters everywhere are getting fed up with a costly climate agenda that delivers no discernible benefits to the climate, and now even the United Nations has had to take note.

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I watched a couple taking wedding photographs, while others fed the ducks.

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As tradition dictated, her placenta was hurled into the Huangpu River; when it floated away, it was deemed that she too “would be raised and fed, only to drift away.”

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Since the start of August, a fresh rush into gold has fed demand for gold equities, whose gains have outpaced chip stocks riding the artificial-intelligence boom.

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Related Words

• agent 
• informer 
• police officer 
• private eye 
• private investigator 
• prosecutor 
• reporter 
• sleuth 
• spy