FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A government with strong central powers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("federal government" is a kind of...):

authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "federal government"):

U.S.; U.S. government; United States; United States government; US Government (the executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States)

Instance hyponyms:

Capital; Washington (the federal government of the United States)

Credits