self-governing

English

Etymology

self- +‎ governing

Adjective

self-governing (not comparable)

1. autonomous
   • 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents‎^[1], number Summer 2019:

     Most Zionists hoped for a state of their own, but early in the 20th century, writers like Hillel Solotaroff and Chaim Zhitlowsky, both Yiddish-speaking immigrant intellectuals in New York, imagined another alternative: a federation of self-governing anarchist communes in Palestine that would defend Jewish life without relying on state power.

Translations

self-governing — see also autonomous

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: selvstyrende

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References

• “self-governing”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.