FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does federal government mean? 

• FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (noun)
  The noun FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has 1 sense:

1. a government with strong central powers

  Familiarity information: FEDERAL GOVERNMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (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)

 Context examples 

A U.S. federal government agency whose mission is to protect public health by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability.

(CDC, NCI Dictionary)

An arrangement whereby a third-party payer (e.g., insurance company, federal government, or corporation) mediates between physicians and patients, negotiating fees for service and overseeing the types of treatment given.

(Managed Care, NCI Thesaurus)

An agency in the U.S. federal government whose mission is to protect public health by making sure that food, cosmetics, and nutritional supplements are safe to use and truthfully labeled.

(FDA, NCI Dictionary)

The U.S. federal government agency responsible for protecting the public’s health and providing important services, especially for people in need.

(Department of Health and Human Services, NCI Dictionary)

Tackling the illegal occupation problem is among the most urgent demands to be addressed in order to bring all units under the federal government.

(Brazilian savanna unprotected, study finds, Agência Brasil)

These American bison, commonly called buffalo, came from the National Bison Range in western Montana run by the U.S. federal government.

(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)

The Institute initiates and conducts studies of national policy and planning for health care and health-related education and research; it also responds to requests from the federal government and other agencies for studies and advice.

(Institute of Medicine, NCI Thesaurus)

(1) Plans and coordinates the development; (2) coordinates the clinical testing of new approaches in academia, industry, or in other parts of the federal government; (3) coordinates the development targeted to specific biochemical or physiological processes in cancer cells for better biologic insight into the physiology of human tumors; (4) encourages industrial commitment to the development and ultimate clinical testing relevant to cancer; (5) coordinates activities with other programs of the Institute, other federal agencies, and outside organizations; (6) coordinates the activities of the branches within the Program for productive interactions and effective technology transfer; and (7) assesses the activities of the Program and advises the Division Director regarding scientific opportunities for the development of new approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

(Diagnostic Imaging Program, NCI Thesaurus)