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fed
1[ fed ]
fed
2[ fed ]
noun
- (sometimes initial capital letter) Slang. a federal official or law-enforcement officer.
Fed
3[ fed ]
noun
- the Fed, Informal. the Federal Reserve System.
- the Federal Reserve Board.
fed.
4abbreviation for
- federal.
- federated.
- federation.
Fed.
5abbreviation for
- Federal.
Fed.
1abbreviation for
- Federal
- Federation
- Federated
Fed
2/ ɛ /
noun
- the Fed informal.the Federal Reserve Bank or Federal Reserve Board
fed
3/ ɛ /
verb
- the past tense and past participle of feed
- fed to death or fed to the teeth or fed up to the teeth or fed to the back teeth or fed up to the back teeth informal.bored or annoyed
fed
4/ ɛ /
noun
- slang.an agent of the FBI
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of fed1
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
The reason he killed the husband, Baker said, was because he was fed up with sharing her and living a life of secret liaisons.
But it's feeding off a recent trend, fed by predatory social media influencers, that conflates masculinity with punishing self-discipline, the kind that rejects all pleasure and comfort as a feminizing — and thereby evil — force.
Electric arc furnaces also do not burn hot enough to make virgin steel, and are fed with scrap steel.
Eight months on, she is unable to support herself and has to be fed through a tube.
The large area of high pressure that has dominated our weather may have brought us clear and sunny skies, but its position to the north of the UK has fed in chillier air from Scandinavia.
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