federally

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adverb

In a federal manner.

Less commonScrabble 16

Meanings

adverbfederally (comparative more federally, superlative most federally)

comparative more federally · superlative most federally · alternative fœderally

  1. In a federal manner.

    The solids would then be dumped at a federally approved toxics landfill.

    1988 January 15, Paul Botts, “Environment: Waukegan's Toxic Waits”, in Chicago Reader
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    White residents used Federal Housing Administration-insured loans to buy their way out of the projects and to move to shiny new middle-class subdivisions. […] The F.H.A.’s explicitly racist underwriting standards, which rated black and integrated neighborhoods as uninsurable, made federally insured home loans largely unavailable to black home seekers.

    2016 June 9, Nikole Hannah-Jones, “Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City”, in The New York Times Magazine

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeydʰ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeydʰós
  3. Proto-Italic*feiðos
  4. Latinfoedus
  5. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  7. Frenchfédéra
  8. Englishfederal
  9. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  10. Proto-Germanic*līką
  11. Englishfederally

From federal + -ly.

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APA

federally. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/federally

MLA

“federally.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/federally. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “federally,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/federally.

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