federate
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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to unite in a federation.
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to organize on a federal basis.
adjective
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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
The census list of citizens eligible for military service fell from about 280,000 at the beginning of the war to 237,000 in 209; and the federate allies must have suffered at least as heavily.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly
The federates came into Paris full of the most revolutionary projects.
From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Léon, baron
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 Durand, John
From all points of the compass federates are arriving.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
The federates of the departments were ranged in order under their banners; the deputies of the army and the national guards were in their ranks, and under their ensigns.
From History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 by Mignet, M. (François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis)
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 Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Léon, baron
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 Hamilton, J. Angus
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
Jamaica, much the largest and richest of the present federating group, will provide more than half the federation's 2,400,000 population.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
But, honestly, I could not exactly make out what they were federating about, and what they were going to do when they got federated.
From That Fortune by Warner, Charles Dudley
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