单词 | defederalize |
释义 | defederalizev. transitive. To remove (an institution, issue, etc.) from the jurisdiction or control of a federal government or any central governing authority. Also: to dissolve (a federation). ΚΠ 1884 Brit. Q. Rev. 80 275 Canada or Australia must first be de-federalized before their component parts could be united in a still greater federation. 1903 F. W. Lehmann in J. F. Dillon J. Marshall II. 480 When Cushing died it was hailed as a godsend because of the opportunity it gave to defederalize the court. 1974 Human Events 21 Sept. 855/2 Rather than federalizing welfare,..Carleson has been working steadily to defederalize it—directly counter to fashionable notions on..reforming things. 1994 G. E. Jones Mod. Wales (ed. 2) x. 297 It [sc. the University of Wales] continued to be a national university with federated colleges... A serious attempt to defederalise the university in 1964-6 was thwarted. 2013 Denver Post (Nexis) 10 Mar. [Jared] Polis has introduced a bill to defederalize marijuana, which could have the effect of opening bank doors to marijuana-based businesses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1884 |
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