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# federated

adjective (federated); verb past form of federate (federate, federates, federated, federating)

«federated» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Federated describes states, groups or organisations that have joined together under one central government or body while still keeping some power of their own. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/federated/#m1)
2. In schools in England, a federation is when two or more schools share one governing body and often one head teacher; such schools are federated. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/federated/#m2)

### In the lessons

In history and citizenship lessons, the USA, Canada, Australia and Germany are federations of states or provinces. The Federated States of Micronesia is a country of islands. In computing, a federated system shares work between separate computers. Phrases: «federated states», «federated schools».

### Examples

- Australia's colonies federated in 1901 to form one country. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/federated/#x1)
- Our school is federated with the infant school down the road. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/federated/#x2)
- The Federated States of Micronesia is in the Pacific Ocean. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/federated/#x3)
- The clubs federated to make one big league. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/federated/#x4)
- In a federated country, each state makes some of its own laws. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/federated/#x5)
- Canada's provinces are part of a federal system. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/federated/#x6)

### Note

Related: federal (adjective, as in «federal government»), federation (noun). In a federation, power is shared between the centre and the parts.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «federated» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/federated/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«federated» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/federated.html) on Mova free.