federal
adjective
pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states, as in
nonfederal
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a word derived from
federal.
Example Sentences
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By law, federal agencies are able to order a nonfederal employer to withhold up to 15% of an employee’s income to pay a delinquent debt, according to the U.S.
From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025
While wildfires displaced dozens of judges, prosecutors, attorneys, defendants and jurors, L.A. county officials kept the nation’s largest nonfederal court system open.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025
The Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide, updated in 2021 and posted on the FBI’s electronic library, redacted examples of assistance provided in investigations of nonfederal crimes.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
The Association of State Dam Safety Officials estimates that it would cost US$157.7 billion to rehabilitate all nonfederal dams in the U.S.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 13, 2023
The majority assumed that "the Government's unrestricted transfer of property to nonfederal hands is a relinquishment of the exclusive legislative power."
From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Edward Samuel Corwin
