fed

¹

[ fed ]

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of feed.

fed

²

[ fed ]

noun

1. (sometimes initial capital letter) Slang. a federal official or law-enforcement officer.

Fed

³

[ fed ]

noun

1. the Fed, Informal. the Federal Reserve System.
2. the Federal Reserve Board.

fed.

⁴

abbreviation for

1. federal.
2. federated.
3. federation.

Fed.

⁵

abbreviation for

1. Federal.

fed

¹

/ fɛd /

noun

1. slang.
   an agent of the FBI

fed

²

/ fɛd /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of feed
2. fed to death or fed to the teeth or fed up to the teeth or fed to the back teeth or fed up to the back teeth informal.
   bored or annoyed

Fed.

³

abbreviation for

1. Federal
2. Federation
3. Federated

Fed

⁴

/ fɛd /

noun

1. the Fed informal.
   the Federal Reserve Bank or Federal Reserve Board

Word History and Origins

Origin of fed¹

First recorded in 1915–20; by shortening

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. fed up, impatient; disgusted; bored:

   They were fed up with the same old routine.

Example Sentences

Fed up with Los Angeles traffic, Elon Musk launched The Boring Co. with two tweets in 2016, promising “to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging.”

From Los Angeles Times

But going forward Fed policymakers must contend with a big new unknown: a second Trump presidential term.

From Los Angeles Times

It marks the second drop in a row after the Fed lowered rates for the first time in more than four years in September, indicating confidence that price rises were finally stabilising.

From BBC

Fed up, she felt she had to take the initiative.

From Salon

Last month the US Fed cut interest rates by a bigger-than-usual 0.5 percentage points, saying it wanted to avoid any further weakening in the labour market.

From BBC