fed
pronunciation
How to pronounce fed in British English:
UK [fed]
How to pronounce fed in American English:
US [fɛd]
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- Noun:
- any federal law-enforcement officer
- the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state charted commercial banks and some trust companies
Word Origin
- fed (n.)
- 1788, short for Federalist; as colloquial for "official of the federal government," from 1916; especially, since 1930s, of FBI agents.
- fed (adj.)
- past participle adjective from feed (v.). Fed up "surfeited, disgusted, bored," is British slang first recorded 1900 (some early uses connect it to the Boer War), extended to U.S. by World War I; probably from earlier phrases like fed up to the back teeth. Earlier it was used of livestock, "fatten up by feeding." The notion probably is the same one in to have had enough "to have had too much."
Example
- 1. The most recent convert is minneapolis fed president narayana kocherlakota .
- 2. At least that 's what san francisco fed president janet yellen thinks .
- 3. Within 48 hours , mr. fink was called by mr. geithner , then new york fed president .
- 4. In a new san francisco fed economic letter , atif mian and amir sufi investigate this hypothesis .
- 5. Later on saturday , mr. willumstad walked the few blocks from aig to the new york fed .