postfederal

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English

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Etymology

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post- +‎ federal

Adjective

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postfederal (not comparable)

  1. (US, economics) Of or relating to a period when cities in the United States can no longer rely on federal funding and must seek local sources.
    • 2001, Matthew Burbank, Gregory Andranovich, Charles H. Heying, Olympic Dreams: The Impact of Mega-events on Local Politics, page 8:
      No other major industrialized democracy puts its cities in the circumstance that American cities face in the postfederal era of needing to attract investment through local entrepreneurial activity.
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