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federally

federally

51 4.7
By the national government of a country that has states
  • adverb
  • /ˈfɛdərəli/
: a nivel federal
  • Many students receive federally funded loans to help pay for their college education.
  • federally funded
  • a federally funded program
  • federally funded research

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Examples

  • Thus, provincial human rights or minimum wage laws have no effect on federally regulated employers.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Briefly, the CPS is a large, federally funded household survey that uses a monthly multistage area probability sample.

    Academic text (2011)
  • In the US, the only federally funded sex education is abstinence education.

    Academic text (2011)
  • There was relatively high enrollment in a few federally funded training programs.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Liz, as I understand it, you work for a federally funded program teaching on various reservations.

  • The cancer registries are federally mandated and we have one here, for example in the Bay Area.

  • As illegal immigrants, this population is ineligible for any federally funded programs like Medicaid.

    Academic text (1991)
  • But maybe the craziest option in this entire car is the backup camera, which is now federally mandated on all new cars sold in the United States.

  • The treaty permitted American farmers to ship cheap, federally subsidized corn and wheat into the Mexican market.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Twenty-three of those states opted for the federally administered national Pre-existing Conditions Insurance Plan (PCIP).

    Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

governmentally
vsfederally
2 6.3

In a way done by the state or public leaders

is specific to actions done by the central national authority not lower levels

How Federal

federally
51 4.7
nationally
157 3.0
regionally
9 4.0
locally
123 1.4

Surface Forms

federally positive

Morphology

federally = federal (transparent) = federal + ly

A direct, regular adverbial formation from the adjective 'federal' with the productive English suffix '-ly' meaning 'in a federal manner'.

Etymology

Federally comes from federal, which has a root meaning 'agreement' or 'league' and is the same root as federation. A federation is a group of states that join together by agreement, so federally means 'by the federal government'.