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# federated

«federated» in Mova's school dictionary: **Federated describes states, groups or organisations that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/federated/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/federated/#x1)
- Our school is federated with the infant school down the road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/federated/#x2)
- The Federated States of Micronesia is in the Pacific Ocean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/federated/#x3)
- The clubs federated to make one big league. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/federated/#x5)
- Canada's provinces are part of a federal system. [tree →](https://md.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.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «federated» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/federated/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.