postfederal
adjEtymology From post- + federal.
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Economics, Sciences US Of or relating to a period when cities in the United States can no longer rely on federal funding and must seek local sources.
- 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.2001, Matthew Burbank, Gregory Andranovich, Charles H. Heying, Olympic Dreams: The Impact of Mega-events on Local Politics, page 8: