federated

adjective

fed·​er·​at·​ed ˈfe-də-ˌrā-təd 

: of, relating to, forming, or joined in a federation

a union of federated republics

On this Western Hemisphere all tribes and people are forming into one federated whole …

—Herman Melville

… a handful of other blue chip companies were putting their considerable clout behind a coalition … to build a federated data warehouse that would help more than 2.5 million employees, retirees, and dependents take more control of their health and health care purchases.

—Rob Preston

Examples of federated in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Equally critical is the Agent Control System — a single hub to register, govern, operate, and continuously improve a federated workforce of enterprise agents. —Swami Chandrasekaran, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025

The initiative demonstrates that federated approaches—long discussed but rarely implemented at scale—can move from theory to practice when institutions align incentives. —Adam Mills, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025

The momentum coincided with a broader wave of decentralization in tech, from the blockchain boom to federated networks like Mastodon and Bluesky. —Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025

The architecture supports heterogeneous agent framework deployments across federated Kubernetes environments. —Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1793, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing federated

• federated church

Rhymes for federated

• abdicated
• abrogated
• acclimated
• activated
• actuated
• adumbrated
• advocated
• aggravated
• aggregated
• agitated
• allocated
• alternated