What does "postfederal" mean?

Of or relating to a period when cities in the United States can no longer rely on federal funding and must seek local sources.

Postfederal

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Adjective

1
Of or relating to a period when cities in the United States can no longer rely on federal funding and must seek local sources. US, not-comparable
"No other major industrialized democracy puts its cities in the circumstance that American cities face in the postfederal era of needing to attract investment through local entrepreneurial activity."

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"No other major industrialized democracy puts its cities in the circumstance that American cities face in the postfederal era of needing to attract investment through local entrepreneurial activity."

Etymology

From post- + federal.

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united states

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