Explore Fed through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like federal or agent. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
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Fed meaning
- A federal government officer or official.
- A police officer.
- The Canadian federal government.
Synonyms of Fed
Using Fed
- The main meaning on this page is: A federal government officer or official. | A police officer. | The Canadian federal government.
- Useful related words include: federal, federal official, agent, federal agent.
- In the example corpus, fed often appears in combinations such as: the fed, fed is, fed funds.
Context around Fed
- Average sentence length in these examples: 31.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 16 start, 4 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fed
- In this selection, "fed" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 31.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, dallas, francisco, grass, president, funds and chair stand out and add context to how "fed" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include san francisco fed president mary, activity in fed funds used, fed funds, fed president and fed meeting. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fed" sits close to words such as emerged, mode and michigan, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fed
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Fed's Harker: I see promising signs that the Fed's rate hikes are workingfinancialjuice. (15 words)
Fed's Daly: Core services inflation hasn't come down yet as the Fed would like. (16 words)
Fed's O'Neill will speak Friday, and text of NY Fed Williams speech will be released. (17 words)
Central banks come back into the spotlight in the week ahead, and while the Fed is all but certain to maintain the Fed Funds rate at its current 5.50% upper bound in this meeting, the focus will be on the outlook for future rate hikes. (46 words)
Several of the 19 Fed policymakers said that with the Fed’s key rate “likely at or near its peak, the focus” of their policy decisions should “shift from how high to raise the policy rate to how long” to keep it at restrictive levels. (45 words)
Gold and silver took a tumble mid-week when Fed Chair Powell, in his prepared remarks to Congress, said the Fed was prepared to increase the pace of rate hikes and to a higher-than-expected level should incoming data continued to show strength. (44 words)
Example sentences (20)
Between a high-profile bank failure and the memory of the Fed trading scandal, “calls to break up the Fed or audit the Fed could reemerge,” Gardner said.
Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan and San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly both stated that the increase in Treasury yields could mean less need for the Fed to raise rates in the current tightening cycle.
This is in line with comments from other US Federal Reserve officials: San Francisco Fed President Mary Daley and Atlanta Fed President Rafael Bostic are insisting that the US Fed will hold rates higher for a longer period of time.
The next Fed meeting is December 11th and the markets are expecting the Fed to not change the Fed Funds rate.
Activity in fed funds—used by banks and government-backed lenders to exchange cash reserves parked at the Fed—surged throughout the past year when the central bank raised at the fastest pace in decades.
And that I think fed through the entire Silicon Valley Tech type system, which I think also fed into the arrogance of the management of Silicon Valley Bank.
As measured by the Chicago Fed’s National Financial Conditions Index, things have tightened up from where they were prior to the Fed’s first rate hike last year, but after peaking in early October, a distinct loosening has since transpired.
But because Logan ran the New York Fed’s bond portfolio for years before she took the top job at the Dallas Fed, her views on what’s driving long-term rates higher could carry considerable weight as policymakers weigh their next moves.
Central banks come back into the spotlight in the week ahead, and while the Fed is all but certain to maintain the Fed Funds rate at its current 5.50% upper bound in this meeting, the focus will be on the outlook for future rate hikes.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell also said in a press conference last week that the Fed would be "monitoring market conditions carefully" as the Treasury refills its balance.
Fed's Daly: Core services inflation hasn't come down yet as the Fed would like.
Fed's Harker: I see promising signs that the Fed's rate hikes are workingfinancialjuice.
Fed's O'Neill will speak Friday, and text of NY Fed Williams speech will be released.
Gold and silver took a tumble mid-week when Fed Chair Powell, in his prepared remarks to Congress, said the Fed was prepared to increase the pace of rate hikes and to a higher-than-expected level should incoming data continued to show strength.
It’s counterproductive because financial conditions, which ultimately is what the Fed targets, eased much more than the Fed would like.
Naked Whey’s Grass-Fed Protein Powder is sourced from grass-fed cows living on small California dairy farms.
Never fear—because the Fed can create its own income at will via monetary inflation, the regime will continue to benefit from the Fed’s usual tricks.
On Friday Fed's Waller gave the issue the most recent goose to the upside when he said the Fed was not making progress on inflation and that there was room for further rate hike's (as in plural).
Randal Quarles, who preceded Barr as the Fed’s vice chair for supervision, in 2019 then pushed to loosen some of the Fed’s bank regulations, including by exempting smaller banks from some capital requirements.
Several of the 19 Fed policymakers said that with the Fed’s key rate “likely at or near its peak, the focus” of their policy decisions should “shift from how high to raise the policy rate to how long” to keep it at restrictive levels.
Phrases with fed
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with fed
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the fed 156×
- fed is 19×
- fed funds 13×
- fed president 12×
- fed has 11×
- fed to 10×
- fed meeting 8×
- fed officials 8×
- fed up 8×
- fed chair 7×