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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
autarchy
noun
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▪ In this sense there was an element of autarchy in the planning of Kensington and Chelsea, responding to local market conditions.
▪ It was not until the second half of the 1950s that autarchy was definitively superseded by a firm commitment to international capitalism.
▪ Rural community autarchy, even if it were an acceptable aim, is a Utopian dream.
▪ That is not democracy or power to the people - it is all power to an autarchy of unaccountable conservative central bankers.
▪ The policies of autarchy represented the regime's attempt to implement that declaration of intent.
▪ The simultaneous process of relaxing autarchy and rapprochement with the western democracies moved very slowly in the first half of the 1950s.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Autarchy

Autarchy \Au"tar*chy\, n. [Gr. ? independence; a'yto`s self + 'arkei^n to be sufficient.]

  1. Self-sufficiency, especially economic self-sufficiency as applied to nations. [Obs.]
    --Milton.

  2. same as autarky.

    Syn: autarky.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
autarchy

1660s, "absolute sovereignty," from Greek autarkhia, from autarkhein "to be an absolute ruler," from autos "self" (see auto-) + arkhein "to rule" (see archon).

Wiktionary
autarchy

n. 1 A condition of absolute power. 2 An autocratic government; an autocracy. 3 Self-government; a condition of economic self-sufficiency or national independence.

WordNet
autarchy

  1. n. economic independence as a national policy [syn: autarky]

  2. a political system governed by a single individual [syn: autocracy] [ant: democracy]

Usage examples of "autarchy".

He supposed he was at fault in that, for Wyme was well regarded by the Autarchy.

Restitution, before Evander had conquered the surrounding countries and the Autarchy established its governors and their Militia, puppet masters holding the strings of a tamed and toylike class that now ruled solely in name.

After the people of the various planets have seen what we have to offer in the way of advanced technology and trade, membership in a galactic civilization, they start to get tired of living under primitive or barbarian conditions and hierarchies and monarchies and autarchies.

And yet, when he saw the scar decorating Davyd's cheek exactly like his own, and the brand on Flysse's arm, he must remember that they were all of them exiles and in the eyes of the Autarchy no different.

Like most of his fellows, Corm had arrived in Salvation confident the land was empty—a vast fallow field for the Autarchy to plow with indentured labor.