federate
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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federates,
present (3rd person singular)
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federated,
past participle, past
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federating
present participle
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to unite in a federation.
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to organize on a federal basis.
adjective
verb
adjective
Other Word Forms
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Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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federatesimple
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federatessimple
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have federatedperfect
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has federatedperfect
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am federatingprogressive
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are federatingprogressive
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is federatingprogressive
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have been federatingperfect progressive
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has been federatingperfect progressive
Past
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federatedsimple
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had federatedperfect
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was federatingprogressive
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were federatingprogressive
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had been federatingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of federate
1665–75; < Latin foederātus leagued together, allied, equivalent to foeder- (nominative stem foedus ) league + -ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
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California’s elderly parole program originates from a federate court ruling aimed at reducing overcrowding in jails and is based in part on studies that show that the risk of recidivism decreases with age.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
The technical term for making social networks interoperable this way is “federation,” and it turns out there are multiple ways sites can federate.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
It aims to federate the next generation of hackers for the New York innovation community.
From Forbes ● Feb. 15, 2013
His plan is to federate Southern Rhodesia with the adjoining British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
From Time Magazine Archive
Roman magistrates did not hesitate to issue orders to the magistrates of federate communities, and to punish them for failure to obey or for lack of respect.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
Have the federates, the national guard, and all true Frenchmen, refused to shed their blood in defence of the glory, the honour, and the independence of their country?
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon
Only the federates of Mayenne, Ile-et-Vilaine, and especially of Finisterre, were "young men well brought up and well informed about the cause they were going to support."
From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by John Durand
When the federates from Marseilles arrived, on their way to the camp at Soissons, the faubourgs were to meet them, and then repair, unexpectedly, to the château.
From History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 by M. (François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis) Mignet
According to the report of the Minister of War, read the 30th of July, at the evening session, 5,314 department federates left Paris between July 14 and 30.
From The French Revolution - Volume 2 by John Durand
There are "a great many evil-disposed persons among the federates."
From The French Revolution - Volume 2 by John Durand
The group recommended adopting what they described as a federated model, with a centralized setup and more shared services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
There have been years of discussions of a federated European Union cloud and talks of what lessened dependence on the whims of American Big Tech companies might mean.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
Speaking to the BBC's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme, Mr Karp argued that patients' data would be safe if Palantir won the contract for the planned federated data platform.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2023
The report said Meta's new content app would support ActivityPub, the decentralized social networking protocol that powers Twitter-rival Mastodon and other federated apps.
From Reuters ● Mar. 10, 2023
We have waited long for this moment, passing many black hours in the interval, but even now it seems that the power of England may be successfully defied by these federated South African Republicans.
From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by J. Angus Hamilton
EU institutions, Kirchick argues, are struggling toward a complex and noble goal: federating 28 countries.
From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2017
He links the increase to schools federating and becoming academies and to intense pressure over poor results.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2010
In "federating" the labor laws of Mexico, President Fortes Gil aims first to set up a system of federal "labor courts" and "labor judges" with a "Supreme Labor Court" at Mexico City.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ghana feels free to consider federating with Guinea, a former colony of France.
From Time Magazine Archive
Co-operation should not stop with the federating of the organizations of a state.
From Chapters in Rural Progress by Kenyon L. (Kenyon Leech) Butterfield
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