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noun
A condition of absolute power.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Autocracy (absolute rule by a single person).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: government
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noun
Sovereignty or self-government (national political independence).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: government, politics
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Synonyms: government
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Alternative spelling of autarky (“personal condition or state of self-reliance; (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency; self-sufficient country or region”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
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noun
a political system governed by a single individual
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: autocracy
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: political system, form of government
Narrower terms: monarchy, dictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny
noun
economic independence as a national policy
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: autarky
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: independence, independency
History
From Medieval Latin autarchia, from Koine Greek αὐταρχία (autarkhía, “absolute power, sovereignty, autocracy”), from αὔταρχος (aútarkhos, “autocratic”), from αὐτ- (aut-, “self”) + ἄρχω (árkhō, “to rule, govern”).
See autarky.
Across languages
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
