federally
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- fœderally (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]federally (comparative more federally, superlative most federally)
- In a federal manner.
- 1988 January 15, Paul Botts, “Environment: Waukegan's Toxic Waits”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- The solids would then be dumped at a federally approved toxics landfill.
- 2016 June 9, Nikole Hannah-Jones, “Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City”, in The New York Times Magazine[2]:
- White residents used Federal Housing Administration-insured loans to buy their way out of the projects and to move to shiny new middle-class subdivisions. […] The F.H.A.’s explicitly racist underwriting standards, which rated black and integrated neighborhoods as uninsurable, made federally insured home loans largely unavailable to black home seekers.