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Federal district   /fˈɛdərəl dˈɪstrɪkt/   Listen
Federal district

noun
1.
A district set apart as the seat of government of a federation.





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"Federal district" Quotes from Famous Books



... Reynolds and Broughton were indicted by the Federal government, but the Federal district court for southern Alabama held that peonage had ...
— The Ultimate Criminal - The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 17 • Archibald H. Grimke
... concern and invited friendly action looking to the performance of the engagements of the two nations concerning the territory embraced in the interoceanic transit. With the subsidence of the Isthmian disturbances and the erection of the State of Panama into a federal district under the direct government of the constitutional administration at Bogota, a new order of things has been inaugurated, which, although as yet somewhat experimental and affording scope for arbitrary-exercise ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 3 (of 3) of Volume 8: Grover Cleveland, First Term. • Grover Cleveland


Words linked to "Federal district" :   territorial division, DC, District of Columbia, D.C., administrative division, administrative district


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