Fed
noun/fed/
/fed/
(US English, informal)- [countable] an officer of the FBI or another federal organization
- The Feds raided his home and found a gun.
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- the Fed[singular] the Federal Reserve System (= the organization that controls the supply of money in the US)
Word Originearly 20th cent.: abbreviation of federal. The abbreviation fed had previously been used in the late 18th cent. to denote a member of the Federalist Party, who advocated a union of American colonies after the War of Independence.
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