Definition of "federal government" []

• Any of several forms of government of federations. (noun)
• The national government of the United States, in contrast to government at the state level. (noun)

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• "By always playing catch-up, the federal government left an opening for reporters like Lea Thompson, self-styled renegades like Andrew Wakefield, and impassioned activists like the Mercury Moms to raise some legitimately troubling questions—and when they did, they felt it was their right to decide which answers were satisfactory."
• "Red-faced—and certain that the federal government had somehow been made aware of my lapse in judgment and would be waiting at JFK to drag me off to Guantanamo in handcuffs—I pulled it out and saw that I had a message."
• "In Pineridge there are many ways to avoid paying taxes to the corrupt federal government that has persecuted us for so many years."