federative

[ fed-uh-rey-tiv, -er-uh-tiv ]

adjective

1. pertaining to or of the nature of a federation.
2. inclined to federate.

Other Words From

• fed·er·a·tive·ly [fed, -, uh, -rey-tiv-lee, -er-, uh, -tiv-], adverb
• un·feder·ative adjective
• un·feder·ative·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of federative¹

First recorded in 1680–90; federate + -ive

Example Sentences

Alongside him was Gen. Konstantin Kobets, defense minister of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, who ordered the armed forces to stand down.

From New York Times

China has “an extensive, whole-process socialist democracy,” they wrote, while “Russia is a democratic federative law-governed state with a republican form of government.”

From Washington Post

Speaking to a joint session of Congress, Bolsonaro also included in his priorities a planned “federative pact” reform bill that aims to revamp the financing ties between federal and local governments.

From Reuters

The Trump administration “has determined that the Federative Republic of Brazil is experiencing widespread, ongoing person-to-person transmission” of the virus, according to a White House statement released Sunday.

From Fox News

David Marion: Preserving the American system in times of crisis - WashTimes: “Extraordinary events like the current COVID-19 crisis contain a centralizing or nationalizing bias that, when added to the centralizing impulse associated with national security threats as well as the egalitarian impulse to nationalize every conceivable right, could eventually erode the vitality of the American federative republic. The result would be not merely a fundamentally national republic, but also a fundamentally different ‘way of life’ for the American people.

From Fox News