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FEDERALISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does federalism mean?
• FEDERALISM (noun)
The noun FEDERALISM has 1 sense:
1. the idea of a federal organization of more or less self-governing units
Familiarity information: FEDERALISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The idea of a federal organization of more or less self-governing units
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("federalism" is a kind of...):
ideology; political orientation; political theory (an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation)
Derivation:
federalist (an advocate of federalism)
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