Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Preterit and past participle of feed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
feed .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US, slang a federal government officer or official, especially
FBI andDEA agents. - noun UK, slang a
police officer . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
feed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any federal law-enforcement officer
- noun 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
Etymologies
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Examples
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For whats its worth, recognizing that the the fed is an imperfect institution, it makes sense to have some checks and balances built into the system.
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Just eyeballing the speed, I didn't notice much of a difference between regular search results and the same term fed through ChunkIt.
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This is fed from the southeast by cold waters from the Humboldt Current and from the northeast, by the moderately warm sub-tropical waters from the North Equatorial counter-current via the Peru Flow.
Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador 2009
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.270 WSM, or .300 WSM The Skinny: Because the BLR is fed from a clip and not a tubular magazine, it can be chambered for a variety of short-action cartridges, including magnums with pointed bullets.
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* I think the tax credit is 1000 per child up to a rather high income limit (100k?), and this particular proposal is tweaking the low end with refundability for those people only paying less than $2000 a year in fed taxes anyway (current law a family of 4 with an income of 40K has a fed income tax liability of around $1500)
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.270 WSM, or .300 WSM The Skinny: Because the BLR is fed from a clip and not a tubular magazine, it can be chambered for a variety of short-action cartridges, including magnums with pointed bullets.
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The fed is a slow-changing institution and it has been ruled by assorted free market fairies and objectivists since about 1980.
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As for the commerce clause issue, if I supported this law (I dont) I would be looking for precedents in fed legislation for forcing citizens to buy goods or services from corporations.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Constitutional Challenges to the Health Care Bill 2010
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The Orbo generator is fed from a battery which it, in turn, recharges; with an intact 1st law of thermodynamics, less energy must be generated than consumed and so the battery will run down and the machine stop.
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But a massive shield of rain fed by moisture deep into the tropics (cool water vapor loop) lurks to the south.
The calm before the rainstorm Jason Samenow 2010
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