anti-federalistadjective
uk/ˌæn.tiˈfed.ər.əl.ist/us/ˌæn.t̬iˈfed.ɚ.əl.ist/UK also mainly US anti-federalopposed to a federalist system of government (= one in which power is divided between a central government and several local ones):
The Foreign Secretary assured anti-federalist MPs that he would not agree to anything that limited British sovereignty.
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Systems of government
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- absolutism
- ancien régime
- apartheid
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- democracy
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- interregnum
- Jim Crow
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anti-federalistnoun [ C ]
uk/ˌæn.tiˈfed.ər.əl.ist/us/ˌæn.t̬iˈfed.ɚ.əl.ist/someone who is opposed to a system of government in which power is divided between a single central government and several regional ones:
Many voters are staunch anti-federalists.
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Systems of government
- a reign of terror idiom
- absolutism
- ancien régime
- apartheid
- apparatus
- democracy
- democrat
- democratic
- democratize
- despot
- interregnum
- Jim Crow
- junta
- kleptocracy
- majority rule
- plutocracy
- plutocrat
- police state
- regime
- reign
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