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Definition: Autonomy |
AutonomyNoun1. Immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence. 2. Personal independence. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "autonomy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references) |
Etymology: Autonomy \Au*ton"o*my\, noun. [from Greek expression: compare to the French expression autonomie. See Autonomous.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: AutonomySynonyms: liberty (n), self-direction (n), self-reliance (n), self-sufficiency (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Autonomy is the condition of something that does not depend on anything else.
In Eastern Christianity, autonomy is the status of a hierarchical church whose head bishop is appointed by a higher-ranking bishop, often a patriarch, who has no other authority over the autonomous church. This status is one step short of autocephaly.
In politics, a self-governing city or region, e.g. Kurdistan, Kosovo or Hong Kong SAR (not necessarily as a result of formal secession), is autonomous. True autonomy is usually a pre-requisite to separation or secession, however, but autonomy does not necessarily lead to separation. Autonomy is not independence.
In computing, the peripheral that can be used with the computer turned off (like multifunctionals, to copy and fax), is autonomous.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Autonomy."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Freedom | Autonomy, self-government, liberalism, free trade; noninterference; Monroe Doctrine. |
Government | Thearchy, theocracy, dinarchy; duarchy, triarchy, heterarchy; duumvirate; triumvirate; autocracy, autonomy; limited monarchy; constitutional government, constitutional monarchy; home rule; representative government; monocracy, pantisocracy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Autonomy |
| English words defined with "autonomy": Algeria, Algerie, Autoomist ♦ Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria ♦ Heteronomy ♦ liberalistic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "autonomy": host system ♦ institutional unit ♦ main exchange ♦ parent exchange. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "autonomy": Autoomist. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Autonomy" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Frisian (autonomy). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Autonomy is essential for diabetic sufferers. : Daily self-injection. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by J. Mohr.. |
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Health | In assisted living settings, clients are viewed primarily as dwellers in apartment-like settings, where they can exercise all the autonomy that accompanies such a situation. (references) | |
Pivotal to individual autonomy is the guarantee that genetic data not be used for discrimination with reference to insurability, employment and educational opportunities, and social stigmatization. (references) | ||
Business | End users and traders have more autonomy to purchase plastic materials. (references) | |
Some NGO's note that the CNDH lacks both autonomy and enforcement authority. (references) | ||
Hospitals will be given significantly more autonomy concerning personnel decisions. (references) | ||
Children | Haiti | Persons with Disabilities The Constitution provides that persons with disabilities shall have the means to ensure their autonomy, education, and independence. (references) |
Civil Liberties | United Arab Emirates | Considerable local autonomy in religious matters resides in the individual emirates. (references) |
Thailand | It enjoys almost complete autonomy under the indirect oversight of the Mass Communications Authority of Thailand. (references) | |
Economic History | Uruguay | Administrative subdivisions: 19 departments with limited autonomy. (references) |
Barbados | Nevertheless, Barbados always enjoyed a large measure of local autonomy. (references) | |
Cameroon | The formerly French and British regions each maintained substantial autonomy. (references) | |
Human Rights | Macau | The Chief Procurator enjoys substantial autonomy from both the executive and the judiciary. (references) |
Burma | Ethnic insurgent groups have sought to gain greater autonomy or, in some cases, independence from the ethnic Burman-dominated State. (references) | |
Morocco | The decree enhanced autonomy by changing the composition of the council to decrease the number of seats for political parties and unions from 18 to 9, and increase the number for economic, social and cultural associations. (references) | |
Indigenous People | India | There is some local autonomy for tribal people in the northeast. (references) |
Indonesia | In October the Government passed the Papua Special Autonomy Law, which had not come into effect by year's end. (references) | |
Bangladesh | Some tribal people oppose the Peace Accord signed by Shantu Larma's group, and continue to demand full autonomy for the CHT tribals. (references) | |
Minorities | Yugoslavia | Hungarians enjoy considerable autonomy. (references) |
Indonesia | The regional autonomy plan in Aceh recognizes Islamic law as the local law there. (references) | |
Estonia | Some noncitizens have termed the law discriminatory, since it restricts cultural autonomy only to citizens. (references) | |
Political Economy | Indonesia | Parliament approved the Aceh Special Autonomy Law in July and the Papua Special Autonomy Bill in October. (references) |
Hong Kong | The HKSAR has a high degree of autonomy, and enjoys independent executive, legislative and judicial power. (references) | |
THAILAND | Customs Procedures: The Thai Customs Department enjoys considerable autonomy and some of its practices appear arbitrary and irregular. (references) | |
Political Rights | Moldova | A Christian Turkic minority, the Gagauz, enjoys local autonomy in the southern part of the country. (references) |
Kenya | Most councils lack sufficient financial autonomy and revenues to perform adequately even these limited functions. (references) | |
Mauritania | The elected councils are responsible for some public services, such as sanitation, and have fiscal autonomy and taxing power. (references) | |
Trade | Spain | The Law 13/1994 provided the Bank of Spain with a high degree of autonomy from the Spanish government, as required by the Maastricht Treaty (EU). (references) |
Indonesia | Also, new laws on regional autonomy and fiscal decentralization have granted significant new powers to the provincial and sub-provincial governments. (references) | |
Ukraine | Project aims at: (i) autonomy and independence of the National Bank of Ukraine in the provision of monetary stability and the health and soundness of the banking system; (ii) improved monitoring and regulation of commercial banks; and (iii) creating a favorable environment for the future development and structure of the banking sector in Ukraine. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Mali | The UNTM has maintained its autonomy from the Government. (references) |
Madagascar | These representatives frequently are perceived to be subject to pressure from management and to lack autonomy. (references) | |
Niger | The USTN and affiliated National Union of Nigerien Teachers (SNEN) professed political autonomy, but they have informal ties to political parties. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Both President Sadat and Prime Minister Begin remain committed to the current negotiations to provide full autonomy to the inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza. |
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| "Autonomy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.83% of the time. "Autonomy" is used about 1,789 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.83% | 1,786 | 4,726 |
| Noun (common) | 0.17% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,789 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Autonomy Corporation Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "autonomy": Professional Autonomy. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "autonomy": autonomy-centred, autonomy-seeking. | |
Ending with "autonomy": near-autonomy, semi-autonomy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "autonomy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | autonomi, vetëqeverisje (self-government). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الحكم الذاتي, الإستقلال. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | самоуправление (arbitrariness, self-government), автономия (self-government). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 自治权, 自治 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | autonomie, samospráva (self-government). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | autonomi (local autonomy, regional autonomy), selvstyre (local autonomy, regional autonomy, self government, self-government), regionalt selvstyre (local autonomy, regional autonomy), regional autonomi (local autonomy, regional autonomy), out-of-traffic mode (out-of-traffic mode), lokalt selvstyre (local autonomy, regional autonomy), lokal autonomi (local autonomy, regional autonomy), et motorkoeretoejs aktionsradius (independence, operating radius, operating range). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | autonomie (local autonomy, regional autonomy, self government, self-government). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | aŭtonomio, aŭtonomeco. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | حاکمیت ملی مبنی براستقلال اقتصادی , خودمختاری , استقلال داخلی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | poissa käytöstä-toiminto (out-of-traffic mode), poissa käytöstä-tila (out-of-traffic mode). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | autonomie (local autonomy, regional autonomy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | autonomy, selsbestjoer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | autonomie (self government). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αυτονομία (out-of-traffic mode). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | autonómia (home rule), önrendelkezés (self-determination), önkormányzat (commune, council, home rule, local government). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kemandirian, daerah otonomi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | autonomia (freedom, independence, municipalism, range, self-government). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 自治権 (right of self-government), 自治 (self-government), 自律 , 自主権 , 自主 (independence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じしゅけ", じしゅ (give oneself up, independence, surrender), じりつ (age 30, assisting, independence, self-reliance), じちけ" (right of self-government), じち (self-government). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 자율성. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | seyrsnys (freedom, immunity, independence, inexpensiveness, latitude, liberty, self-determination), hene-reilltys, hene-reill (self-determination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | outonomia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | autonomyay autonomia (independence, independency, self-determination, self-governed, self-governing, self-government, self-rule, swaraj). (various references) autonomie (independence, self sufficiency, self-government), autoguvernare. (various references) автономия. (various references) autonomija (self-government). (various references) autonomía (range). (various references) autonomi, självstyrelse (self-government), självständighet (freedom, independence, independency, self-support). (various references) otonomi (self-determination), özerklik (autarchy, autarky, home rule, self-determination, self-government), özerklík. (various references) самоврядування (municipality, self-government), автономія, автономна область, автономна держава, право на самоврядування. (various references) sự tự trị (home rule), quyền tự trị nước tự trị. (various references) ymreolaeth (Home-Rule, self-government). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Autonomy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aeronomy, astonomy, atonomy, attonomy, Auronzo, automomy, autonamy, autonom, autonome, Autonomen, autonomie, Autonomo, autonoym, Euronomia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "autonomy" (pronounced ôtÄ"numē or utÄ"numē) |
| 5 | -Ä" n u m ē | astronomy, economy, gastronomy. |
| 4 | -n u m ē | anomie, Archenemy, enemy. |
| 3 | -u m ē | academy, alchemy, anatomy, appendectomy, blasphemy, dichotomy, epitome, hysterectomies, hysterectomy, infamy, keratotomy, lumpectomy, mastectomy, monogamy, polygamy, prostatectomy, sesame, sodomy, tonsillectomy, vasectomy. |
| 5 | -Ä" n u m ē | astronomy, economy, gastronomy. |
| 4 | -n u m ē | anomie, Archenemy, enemy. |
| 3 | -u m ē | academy, alchemy, anatomy, appendectomy, blasphemy, dichotomy, epitome, hysterectomies, hysterectomy, infamy, keratotomy, lumpectomy, mastectomy, monogamy, polygamy, prostatectomy, sesame, sodomy, tonsillectomy, vasectomy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-m-n-o-o-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: amount, mouton, outman. | |
-3 letters: anomy, atomy, atony, aunty, moony, mount, muton, notum, toman, toyon, yamun. | |
-4 letters: atom, aunt, auto, mano, many, maun, maut, mayo, moan, moat, mono, mony, moon, moot, muon, myna, noma, nota, onto, tony, toom, toon, toyo, tuna, unto, yuan. | |
-5 letters: amu, ant, any, man, mat, may, moa, mon, moo, mot, mun. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-m-n-o-o-t-u-y" | |
+2 letters: antonymous. | |
+4 letters: autonomously, consummatory, countrywoman, neuroanatomy, pneumatology. | |
+5 letters: autonomically, communicatory, condylomatous, mountainously, uncomfortably, unemotionally. | |
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