federal

IPA: fˈɛdɝʌɫ

Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations.
Pertaining to the national government level in a federal nation, as opposed to state, provincial, county, city, or town.
(slang) Intrusive; airing out another's personal affairs.

Examples of "federal" in Sentences

The term federal judge really doesn't exist anymore.
Who ever heard the term federal or union applied to the aggregation of individuals into one community?
Gaining agreement from some federal court (notice the term federal) to nullify the federal government is not likely.
I mean, you've robbed thirty-one banks in twelve states, escaped from federal lockups _and _federal prisons -- and all without using violence of any kind.
"The big lessons after Katrina is we all have to work as a team," said Fugate, whose agency employed the term "federal family," instead of federal government, in news releases related to storm preparations.
Republicans spending bingeRepublican lawmakers called the new unemployment numbers "completely unacceptable," and blamed what they called a "federal spending binge" for continuing to hold back U.S. job creation.
Esq. in Milton, and remarked to him, that I was afraid the legislature would be federal, to which the said Thompson replied, that he was afraid it would _not be federal_, or that he began to be afraid there would not be _a federal_ house.
Of course, when I use the phrase "federal prosecutors and regulators alleged . . ." that's sort of a tip off that this whole investment contract thing didn't end up too well for the investors, who we might as well start referring to as victims.