1 having a system of government in which the individual states of a country have control over their own affairs, but are controlled by a central government for national decisions, etc:
a federal republic
2 (within a federal system, especially the US) connected with national government rather than the local government of an individual state:
a federal law * state and federal income taxes
federally adverb:
federally funded health care
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