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==English==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈfɛdəɹeɪtɪd/}}

===Verb===
{{head|en|verb form}}

# {{infl of|en|federate||ed-form}}

===Adjective===
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# [[united|United]], as a [[federation]], under a [[central]] [[government]]
#* 1990, Frank Mecklenburg, Manfred Stassen, ''German Essays on Socialism in the Nineteenth Century''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Ytk4sONUc80C&pg=PA191&dq=%22federated+states+of+germany%22]:
#*: As one of the results of these systems we have agrarian rule in nearly all the federated states of Germany.
# {{lb|en|computing|telecommunications}} [[interconnected|Interconnected]], as a [[federation]] or [[supernetwork]] of [[independent]] and [[interoperable]] [[services]].

====Usage notes====
* States that are part of a federation are sometimes called [[federal state]]s; see the entry for relative frequencies of ''federal state'' vs. ''federated state''.

===Derived terms===
* {{l|en|federated database}}
* {{l|en|federated directory}}
* {{l|en|federated learning}}
* [[Federated States of Micronesia]]

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