federally

English

Alternative forms

• fœderally (obsolete)

Etymology

From federal +‎ -ly.

Adverb

federally (comparative more federally, superlative most federally)

1. 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.