confederal

adjective

con·​fed·​er·​al kən-ˈfe-d(ə-)rəl 

: of or relating to a confederation

Examples of confederal in a Sentence

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These courts and other confederal bodies will likely require third-party participation at the outset, in order to build mutual confidence and avoid stalemates. —Omar M. Dajani, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2024

Structuring confederal arrangements around collective equality does not mean the parties must come to negotiations with identical capacities. —Omar M. Dajani, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2024

Each state would have authority over its own internal security, but confederal institutions would facilitate close cooperation and intelligence sharing between each side’s policing entities. —Omar M. Dajani, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2024

If this effort is successful, the Kurds will be better served by remaining part of a functioning federal or confederal Iraq than by being outside of it. —Galip Dalay, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2017

That’s because member states worry that if the rules are too strict, platforms would respond by shrinking their platform workforce, says Ludovic Voet, confederal secretary at the European Trade Union Confederation. —WIRED, 20 Nov. 2023

In 1999, Belarus and Russia signed a treaty that committed them to merging into a confederal state at some future point. —New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022

Two-state solutions, one-state solutions, confederal arrangements with Jordan or even Jordan and Syria—nothing has worked. —Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 17 May 2021

What amount to marks the city councils have ordered the removal of confederal monuments from public spaces, removing history altogether, rather than allowing the next generation to see it, interpret it and yes, debate it. —Fox News, 27 June 2018

Word History

First Known Use

1780, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for confederal

• nonfederal
• federal