Meanings
comparative more federally · superlative most federally · alternative fœderally
- 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 Reader1 more example
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
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeydʰ-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeydʰós
- Proto-Italic*feiðos
- Latinfoedus
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Frenchfédéra
- Englishfederal
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishfederally
Cite this entry
federally. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/federally
“federally.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/federally. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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