postfederal

English

Etymology

From post- +‎ federal.

Adjective

postfederal (not comparable)

1. (US, economics) Of or relating to a period when cities in the United States can no longer rely on federal funding and must seek local sources.
   • 2001, Matthew Burbank, Gregory Andranovich, Charles H. Heying, Olympic Dreams: The Impact of Mega-events on Local Politics, page 8:

     No other major industrialized democracy puts its cities in the circumstance that American cities face in the postfederal era of needing to attract investment through local entrepreneurial activity.