feds

Etymology

noun

  1. plural of fed
  2. (US, Australia, slang, government) The federal level of government, viewed as a collective group of people. Typically its law enforcement agencies and officers.
    Which leaves the states in an awful hole. The Feds have ripped $80 billion out of their budgets over the next 10 years. 2016-02-10, Peter Martin, “State governments are about to hike up taxes”, in The Sydney Morning Herald

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