Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To cause to join into a league, federal union, or similar association.
- intransitive verb To become united into a federal union.
- adjective United in a federation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Leagued; confederate; federal: as, federate nations or powers; “a federate alliance,”
- To unite in forming a league or federation.
- To form into a federation; constitute as a federation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective United by compact, as sovereignties, states, or nations; joined in confederacy; leagued; confederate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
federated , united in an alliance or federation. - verb To unite in a
federation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb enter into a league for a common purpose
- adjective united under a central government
- verb unite on a federal basis or band together as a league
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The House unanimously passed a bill to centralize the system, he says, but the Senate took no action (the VA embarked on a less ambitious approach to "federate" but not totally centralize its system).
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We welcome others to run wave servers and become wave providers, for themselves or as services for their users, and to "federate" waves, that is, to share waves with each other and with wave. google.com.
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life Dare Obasanjo 2010
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In response to this, a group of large companies formed the Liberty Alliance which developed protocols that will allow institutions to "federate" data across company boundaries.
Comments for Identity Woman Drummond Reed 2010
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And EMC is promising to offer "federate" different types of solutions built on its Atmos technology.
TechRepublic Blogs 2009
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The Slough plan comes as the 164 grammars are being urged to "federate" with nearby comprehensives and secondary moderns to help raise standards.
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It also will allow EMC to "federate" multiple clusters for rapid replication and mirroring, common management, and other stuff they either haven't figured out yet or aren't telling this intrepid reporter.
Byte and Switch: 2009
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It also will allow EMC to "federate" multiple clusters for rapid replication and mirroring, common management, and other stuff they either haven't figured out yet or aren't telling this intrepid reporter.
Byte and Switch: 2009
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And EMC is promising to offer "federate" different types of solutions built on its Atmos technology.
Between the Lines 2009
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It also will allow EMC to "federate" multiple clusters for rapid replication and mirroring, common management, and other stuff they either haven't figured out yet or aren't telling this intrepid reporter.
Byte and Switch: 2009
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It also will allow EMC to "federate" multiple clusters for rapid replication and mirroring, common management, and other stuff they either haven't figured out yet or aren't telling this intrepid reporter.
Byte and Switch: 2009
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