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  • verb Alternative spelling of federalize.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb put under the control and authority of a federal government
  • verb unite on a federal basis or band together as a league
  • verb enter into a league for a common purpose

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Examples

  • Is it time to abolish county constabularies and fire brigades and "federalise" the police into one nationwide force?

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • Is it time to abolish county constabularies and fire brigades and "federalise" the police into one nationwide force?

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • Is it time to abolish county constabularies and fire brigades and "federalise" the police into one nationwide force?

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • I blogged today about the need I feel to federalise the Labour party throughout the UK, because I feel Senedd Labour wastes too much intellectual bandwidth on having to defend the nat attacks on the Westminster party.

    Labour fantasies 2009

  • It appears that their candidate in Penygroes has been circulating a pamphlet claiming that plans are underway to federalise Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle highschool.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • Gwynedd's scheme for restructuring primary education won't have much of an effect here, though the plan to federalise Our Lady St Helen in Caernarfon has caused the city's Catholics to worry.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • Gwynedd's scheme for restructuring primary education won't have much of an effect here, though the plan to federalise Our Lady St Helen in Caernarfon has caused the city's Catholics to worry.

    Gwynedd Elections Part 2: Bangor 2008

  • It appears that their candidate in Penygroes has been circulating a pamphlet claiming that plans are underway to federalise Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle highschool.

    Lies Gwynedd 2008

  • Seeing that there is already an efficient American Association, we should not advocate the formation of a separate Canadian body; but possibly the Montreal meeting might be able to do something to federalise the separate Canadian societies.

    The British Association's Visit to Montreal, 1884 : letters Clara Rayleigh

  • Whether Mr. Gladstone himself has any wish to federalise the whole United Kingdom is at least open to doubt.

    A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893 Albert Venn Dicey 1878

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