autarchy

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek αὐταρχία (autarkhía, “absolute governing”)

Pronunciation

• Homophone: autarky

Noun

autarchy (countable and uncountable, plural autarchies)

1. A condition of absolute power.
2. autocracy: absolute rule by a single person.
3. sovereignty: national political independence.
4. autarky: national economic self-reliance.

Synonyms

• (self-government): See sovereignty
• (rule): See Thesaurus:government

Coordinate terms

• (rule): See Thesaurus:government

Derived terms

• autarch
• autarchic
• autarchical
• autarchically
• autarchism
• autarchist

 

Related terms

• autarky
• autocracy

Translations

condition of absolute power

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 專制／专制 (zh) (zhuānzhì), 专制 (zh) (zhuānzhì)

• Finnish: itsevaltius (fi)
• French: autarchie (fr) f
• German: Autarkie (de) f
• Irish: ^{(please verify)} átarcacht f
• Italian: autarchia (it) f
• Japanese: 専制 (ja) (せんせい, sensei)
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• Portuguese: autarquia (pt)
• Russian: автарки́я (ru) f (avtarkíja), автокра́тия (ru) f (avtokrátija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аутархија f

  Roman: autarhija (sh)

• Spanish: autarquía (es) f, autarcía (es) f

autocratic government — see autocracy

condition of economic self-sufficiency

• Finnish: omavaraisuus (fi), autarkia (fi)
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