federal official

1. 1.

   any federal law-enforcement officer

   SynonymsFederalFed

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Questions about federal official

What does federal official mean?

federal official means "any federal law-enforcement officer".

What is another word for federal official?

Close synonyms include Federal, Fed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is federal official a common word?

federal official 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.