federal government

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   a government with strong central powers

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Questions about federal government

What does federal government mean?

federal government means "a government with strong central powers".

Is federal government a common word?

federal government is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.