FEDERALISM

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The idea of a federal organization of more or less self-governing units

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("federalism" is a kind of...):

ideology; political orientation; political theory (an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation)

Derivation:

federalist (an advocate of federalism)

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