Fed Meaning
/ˈfɛd/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA federal government officer or official.
nounA police officer.
Sentence Examples
I'm fed up with your constant complaining.
You bit the hand that fed you.
She fed the remains of her lunch to the dog.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The zookeeper ____ the hungry lions fifteen pounds of raw meat yesterday.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She ____ the birds in the park every morning before she started her daily walk to work.
Word Origin & History
Clipping of federal.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"A person is saying that the protester shot in the head by the feds with non lethals is in the hospital, doctors saying they don’t think they will make it.
Holy fuck, I’m speechless."
— 2020 July 12, PNW Youth Liberation Front, Twitter, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2020:
"Hi. I should have made this clearer earlier. I will now. I have worked with feds. I have worked with foreign special forces who may well have been trained by the guys shooting at you from the courthouse.
These are not cops. They are not even similar."
— 2020 July 12, Robert Evans, Twitter, archived from the original on 16 May 2023:
"Jasmine York led chants of ‘f*** the f***ing feds’ as a crowd marched on Bristol’s Bridewell police station."
— 2022 March 15, “Kill the Bill protester who led ‘f*** the feds’ chant jailed over police car torching”, in Metro:
"Consolidates the Federal Reserve Banks (FED) and monetary authority functions undertaken by the central government."
— 2006, International Financial Statistics Yearbook 2006, International Monetary Fund, →ISBN, page 191:
"So what’s the Fed to do? It must manage interest rates without a working monetary policy compass."
— 2019 August 1, Mark Zandi, “Blame Trump for the Fed’s broken monetary policy compass”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2019:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The zookeeper ____ the hungry lions fifteen pounds of raw meat yesterday.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She ____ the birds in the park every morning before she started her daily walk to work.