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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

联邦化

Pronunciation / Transliteration: liánbānghuà

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Federate/ˈfɛd.ə.reɪt/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这些省份决定联邦化为一个统一的国家。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To form or be formed into a single centralized federal state or organization, in which individual constituent units retain some governing power.

    "The independent colonies decided to federate into a single powerful nation."
  2. 2

    In computing and networking, to connect separate computer networks or systems so that they can interoperate while remaining distinct.

    "The email servers were configured to federate across different organizations."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'foederatus', past participle of 'foederare' (to league or treaty), from 'foedus' meaning league, treaty, or pact. It entered English in the early 17th century, initially used in political contexts to describe states forming a union while retaining internal sovereignty.

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