fed

Plural: feds

Noun

• A federal agent or law enforcement officer.
• any federal law-enforcement officer
• the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state-chartered commercial banks and some trust companies
  • "the Fed seeks to control the United States economy by raising and lowering short-term interest rates and the money supply"
• A federal government officer or official.
• A police officer.
• The Canadian federal government.
• A federation in which powerlifters organize to compete.
• Clipping of federation.

Verb

• provide as food
• give food to
• feed into; supply
• introduce continuously
• support or promote
  • "His admiration fed her vanity"
• take in food; used of animals only
• serve as food for; be the food for
• move along, of liquids
• profit from in an exploitatory manner
• gratify
• provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
• Clipping of federate.
• simple past and past participle of feed

Examples

• He played FED, hoping no one would question its validity on the Words With Friends board.
• Salmon were becoming scarce in the river until the feds stepped in.
• That corrupt fed was caught taking bribes from a mobster!

Synonyms

course, eat, feast, Federal, federal official, Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve System, feed, feed in, fertilise, fertilize, flow, FRS, give, prey, run, 5-O, John Law, John Q. Law, Johnny Hopper, Mr Plod, Officer Friendly, Old Bill, PC Plod, alphabet, barney, beatsman, bizzie, blue heeler, blue meanie, bluebottle, bluecoat, bobby, body snatcher, bogey, boy in blue, bull, bullyman, buttons, centenier, charpering omi, chazzer, cobbler, cop, copper, cozzer, cracker, crowns, crusher, dibble, fed, filth, finest, finger, five-o, flatfoot, flatty, fuzz, garda, gendarme, glowie, guardian of the peace, harman, harman-beck, jack, jackboot, jake, lawman, mee-maw, monarch, mutton shunter, nuthook, oinker, peeler, pig, piggy, plod, po-po, police, police officer, policeman, policeperson, polis, raw lobster, roller, rozzer, scufter, slop, statie, swine, twelve, tyre biter, unboiled lobster, walloper, wooden-top

Antonyms

starve

Related Words

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