autarkic

English

Etymology

From autarky +‎ -ic.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɔːˈtɑːkɪk/

Adjective

autarkic (comparative more autarkic, superlative most autarkic)

1. Pertaining to an autarky; self-sufficient.
   • 1996, Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy, Folio Society, published 2015, page 687:

     The countryside, in short, was becoming more archaic and more autarkic.

   • 2020, John McNeill, “How fascist is President Trump? There’s still a formula for that,”, in Washington Post:

     Fascists had no particular economic doctrine aside from preparing for war. They wanted to build autarkic economies that could withstand blockade and did not rely on foreign trade except for bilateral deals with weaker countries.

Derived terms

• autarkically

 

Translations

self-sufficient

• Czech: soběstačný
• Georgian: ავტარკიული (avṭarḳiuli), თვითკმარი (tvitḳmari)
• German: autark (de)
• Italian: autarchico (it)
• Macedonian: самозадо́волен (samozadóvolen), самодо́волен (samodóvolen), авта́ркичен (avtárkičen), авта́рхичен (avtárhičen)
• Polish: autarkiczny (pl)
• Russian: самодоста́точный (ru) m (samodostátočnyj)