FED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Fed mean? 

• FED (noun)
  The noun FED has 2 senses:

1. any federal law-enforcement officer

2. the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state-chartered commercial banks and some trust companies

  Familiarity information: FED used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any federal law-enforcement officer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Fed; Federal; federal official

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

agent; federal agent (any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state-chartered commercial banks and some trust companies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Fed; Federal Reserve; Federal Reserve System; FRS

Context example:

the Fed seeks to control the United States economy by raising and lowering short-term interest rates and the money supply

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

central bank (a government monetary authority that issues currency and regulates the supply of credit and holds the reserves of other banks and sells new issues of securities for the government)

Meronyms (members of "Fed"):

Federal Reserve Bank; reserve bank (one of 12 regional banks that monitor and act as depositories for banks in their region)

national bank (a commercial bank chartered by the federal government)

member bank (a bank that is a member of the Federal Reserve System)

 Context examples 

To study further how salt affects blood flow in the brain, blood vessels were taken from the brains of mice fed a high-salt diet and grown in a dish.

(Hold the salt: gut reaction may impair the brains of mice, National Institutes of Health)

He is like dog that is fed long time in one place.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Manuka honey is produced by bees fed on the flowers of the New Zealand Manuka bush (Leptospermum scoparium).

(Manuka Honey, NCI Thesaurus)

These results reveal a previously unknown mechanism by which the black holes can be fed.

(Supermassive Black Holes Feed on Cosmic Jellyfish, ESO)

Those that do remain, however, are well fed, for he still brings in the flies by tempting them with his food.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The researchers next tested the Rosi nanoparticles in obese mice fed a high-fat diet.

(Nanoparticles target, transform fat tissue, NIH)

“My God!” he cried. “Someone has loosed the dog. It’s not been fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it’ll be too late!”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An indication as to whether the subject was breast fed (received mother's milk) as an infant.

(Breast Fed Indicator, NCI Thesaurus)

The dietary RNA is then secreted with the jelly and taken-up by larvae fed on the jelly.

(Discovery of RNA transfer through royal jelly could aid development of honey bee vaccines, University of Cambridge)

Researchers fed mice a sugary, high fat diet such that they become obese and then the obese mice were exercised.

(Exercise in pregnancy improves health of obese mothers by restoring their tissues, University of Cambridge)