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
The two nations agreed not to federate, as first proposed, but to merge.
From Time Magazine Archive
Again, if all the churches of both North Bloomfield and Greene should federate it would be possible to employ a single pastor of even higher grade with an assistant.
From Six Thousand Country Churches by Charles Otis Gill
At last the King concluded to take up in the Council the decree relative to the camp of twenty thousand federates.
From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
The sentiments manifested by the federates equally disquieted him.
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon
The day before the evacuation of Petersburg by the Con federates, Grant was urged to order an attack upon the Confederate positions.
From Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) by William Henry Hurlbert
The pastor must have been eloquent and have spoken with profound conviction, for the federates who were listening to him began to weep, then seized and embraced him.
From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various
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
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
By February 2023, just one pupil remained on its roll, although that pupil was actually taught at the nearby Sharow Church of England Primary School, which is federated with Skelton Newby Hall.
From BBC ● May 30, 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
It will be noted that the United Church of Garrettsville differs in some respects from the ordinary federated church.
From Six Thousand Country Churches by Charles Otis Gill
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
At midnight Mr. Lingnam brought down his big-bellied despatch box with the newspaper clippings and set to federating the Empire in earnest.
From A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling
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