defederalizationn.
/ˌdiːfɛd(ə)rəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌdiːfɛd(ə)rl̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /diːˌfɛd(ə)rəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /diːˌfɛd(ə)rl̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /diˌfɛd(ə)rələˈzeɪʃən/, /diˌfɛd(ə)rəˌlaɪˈzeɪʃən/ The action, fact, or process of removing an organization, industry, etc., from the control or jurisdiction of a federal government or any central governing authority; (also) the action, fact, or process of dissolving any federation or federal state or association. Also: an instance of either of these.
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1916 Joplin (Missouri) Globe 22 Dec. 4/7 It was learned today that A battery, Kansas field artillery,..will leave early tomorrow after complete defederalization, and will spend Christmas at its home station.
1959 A. M. Schlesinger Age of Roosevelt II. xvi. 276 Some wanted a pork-barrel riot... Others wistfully hoped that defederalization might bring on a new access of local responsibility.
1966 Times 12 Jan. 13/1 His decision not to grant separate university status to the Welsh College of Advanced Technology in Cardiff has revived..the long-standing debate for and against defederalization of the University of Wales.
1992 V. Zaslavsky in G. W. Lapidus et al. From Union to Commonw. 92 A peaceful consensual change of ethnoterritorial borders or even a complete defederalization might become integral elements of a new nationality policy.
2000 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 19 Jan. b5/1 The biggest losers are children, according to..the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit group in Washington that tracks the impact of defederalization of social programs in 13 states.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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