verb.
Simple past tense and past participle of federate.
adjective.united, as a federation, under a centralgovernment
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adjective.
united under a central government
Word Usage
"A single-origin federated identity network will always fail on the internet (as Joseph Smarr and John McCrea like to say of Facebook Connect: We’ve seen this movie before)."