Defederalize

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To remove from federal government. transitive

    "The Reagan strategy to defederalize American health care consisted of three general lines of attack that, if fully accepted and implemented, would indeed have shriveled the involvement of the central government in the system."

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"The Reagan strategy to defederalize American health care consisted of three general lines of attack that, if fully accepted and implemented, would indeed have shriveled the involvement of the central government in the system."

Etymology

From de- + federalize.

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