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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
autonomy
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
complete
▪ The deal was described as an alliance, and Crocker was allowed complete autonomy.
▪ Professionals, in contrast to members of other occupations, claim and are often accorded complete autonomy in their work.
considerable
▪ The 1990s is an era in which schools operate with considerable financial autonomy.
▪ There are constraints-the courts provide a lot of constraints, for example-but none the less, the e is considerable autonomy in this work.
▪ Beyond this, however, teachers were given considerable autonomy.
▪ Formerly the universities were granted considerable day-to-day autonomy within a legal framework shaped byu the state.
▪ Congregations may belong to a Union of Baptist Churches, but each has considerable autonomy.
▪ Each company is given considerable autonomy so it can know and respond to local markets.
economic
▪ Editorial offices had the right of complete economic and financial autonomy.
financial
▪ The 1990s is an era in which schools operate with considerable financial autonomy.
▪ Editorial offices had the right of complete economic and financial autonomy.
▪ Such a role called for financial autonomy, an independent international civil service, and collaboration between world organizations.
full
▪ Apparently, then, Hegel is extending a notion of full autonomy to the sphere of love-making.
great
▪ Could standards be preserved at the same time as giving institutions greater autonomy?
▪ Choice programs in schools typically have greater flexibility and autonomy than are found in traditional comprehensive high schools.
▪ The net effect of these measures has been to give greater autonomy to the central government.
▪ By contrast the Interior Minister, Pierre Joxe, advocated greater internal autonomy.
▪ He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his nonviolent campaigns for greater autonomy in his homeland.
▪ Measures affecting higher education saw the universities granted greater autonomy in running their own affairs.
▪ It is not just because of their greater autonomy that discretion in both senses is very important to neighbourhood police.
high
▪ The Catalans have also achieved a tremendously high level of autonomy.
increased
▪ The document stated that Kurdish cultural rights were to be recognized and that Kurdish regions would enjoy increased autonomy in local government.
▪ This in turn implies increased autonomy for assessing practitioners resulting perhaps in a new level of autonomy and new systems of accountability.
individual
▪ In both theories, however, the guiding vision and uniting theme remains a fidelity to the liberal ideal of individual autonomy.
▪ Their criteria of personal responsibility enjoy the fluidity necessary to achieve social policies rather than the rigour demanded by respect for individual autonomy.
▪ Nor would the dispute be of any great interest, because the explanatory role allotted to individual autonomy is so minimal.
▪ As soon as a contract becomes legally binding, performance ceases to be optional, thereby curtailing individual autonomy.
▪ The concepts inherent in this right are the bedrock upon which the principles of self-determination and individual autonomy are based.
▪ Their belief in individual autonomy is such that even children are not required to obey their elders.
▪ Nevertheless, the modern law of contracts tenaciously clings to the liberal ideal of individual autonomy.
▪ The principle of individual user autonomy was sacrosanct in the day centres generally and the Contact group in particular.
kurdish
▪ An agreement on Kurdish autonomy would bring the Kurds back to their towns and villages, rendering a western military presence superfluous.
▪ Barzani stated that negotiations were continuing with the government for Kurdish autonomy.
local
▪ Rather, we claim, it is the political objective of removing local government's autonomy that is at issue.
▪ Establishing network systems, with local autonomy but statewide standards, for service. 4.
▪ Although people occasionally discussed questions of local autonomy in private, they rarely raised them, even obliquely, in public.
▪ It would appear that Great Britain ranks next to the United States in degree of local autonomy.
▪ The 1970s were a period when the parameters of local autonomy enjoyed both by LEAs and schools were discussed.
▪ No longer is the concern a simple alternative - local autonomy or centralisation.
▪ There were further difficulties within most of the republics stemming from demands for local autonomy or even independence.
▪ In the long run the centralist traditions were to win the race against all hopes for some measure of local autonomy.
managerial
▪ This intervention has the effect both of undermining managerial autonomy and of weakening the coherence of political control by blurring objectives.
personal
▪ Students' personal autonomy can not be guaranteed even by the best curriculum in the world.
▪ Personality implies cooperation and personal autonomy.
▪ For the Piaroa the social can only be created through the skills and the personal autonomy of individuals.
▪ But those are ceremonial events in which citizens reaffirm their surrender of sovereignty and their carelessness of their personal autonomy.
political
▪ Even during the period of its greatest political autonomy, Mormonism constituted only a partial or semi-Asiatic society.
professional
▪ Dare we trust such people ever again with the professional autonomy which they once enjoyed?
▪ Legal regulation tends to create administrative burdens, resentment and loss of self-esteem through the undermining of professional autonomy.
regional
▪ The former regional-autonomy minister, Ryaas Rasyid, believes the whole scheme has been botched.
▪ Formation of regional party bloc Five regional autonomy parties moved towards forming a political bloc under the leadership of the Lombardy League.
▪ The regional autonomy parties continued to make gains in the north, but won only 2.5 percent of the overall vote.
▪ It was killed by the regional autonomy legislation of 1946.
relative
▪ First, the relative autonomy of railway management means that the assessment of its performance by outside authorities is problematic.
▪ But in the late 1960s the relative autonomy of the teaching profession over the curriculum came increasingly under attack.
▪ The relative autonomy of law has to be constantly maintained by successful working-class mobilization into politics and the labour movement.
▪ Foster indicates how commitment to relative autonomy of the political, ideological and economic generates accounts which look very like traditional functionalism.
▪ Such a general concept was to be provided by Althusser's theory of relative autonomy within a structure in dominance.
▪ It also possesses relative autonomy, however, when they are not.
▪ Nevertheless, cinema ultimately retains a relative autonomy in Levin's tribute.
▪ The notion of relative autonomy raises the question of the limits within which the state's autonomy may vary.
■ VERB
achieve
▪ In the end, the building is a home as well as a set of systems for achieving autonomy.
allow
▪ The deal was described as an alliance, and Crocker was allowed complete autonomy.
develop
▪ Educators want to develop autonomy in those who pass through.
▪ Interfering with or preventing children from developing cognitive autonomy discourages their efforts to learn how to learn.
▪ Teachers can encourage children to resolve issues themselves and develop autonomy.
enjoy
▪ Covering is the response of officials enjoying substantial autonomy to efforts at organizational control.
▪ The document stated that Kurdish cultural rights were to be recognized and that Kurdish regions would enjoy increased autonomy in local government.
▪ In the Tokugawa period it enjoyed some autonomy, and was permitted a certain degree of self-reliance and self-government.
▪ They also enjoyed a distinct autonomy from the Lords, the King, and the Ministers of the Crown.
▪ We must also examine critically the notion that individual practitioners enjoy an autonomy which is somehow derived from that of the collectivity.
give
▪ It gave the character limited autonomy, and did what it could to prod Tunney into taking care of the Daine problem.
▪ Mission-driven budgets give managers the autonomy they need to respond to changing circumstances.
▪ Could standards be preserved at the same time as giving institutions greater autonomy?
▪ Hierarchies implement decisions that are made by those in authority; the market gives more autonomy to individual agents.
▪ Beyond this, however, teachers were given considerable autonomy.
▪ Five years ago, it began to give more autonomy to its parts subsidiary, Acustar.
▪ The net effect of these measures has been to give greater autonomy to the central government.
▪ The judges were looking for books that challenged pupils to get to grips with big concepts while giving teachers autonomy and flexibility.
grant
▪ The law would grant indigenous communities significant autonomy in the way they run their communities.
▪ Formerly the universities were granted considerable day-to-day autonomy within a legal framework shaped byu the state.
increase
▪ They included clauses to devolve power by increasing the autonomy and economic power of local councils.
▪ Mechanization has increased the autonomy of the agricultural worker and has rendered close supervision difficult, if not impossible.
lose
▪ They have already lost a great deal of the autonomy and self-determination they possessed under the Stormont regime.
▪ Even the remotest village councils felt their heavy hand, and the municipalities of Chambery and the other towns lost their autonomy.
preserve
▪ The function of this sentiment is likewise to preserve the autonomy of science ....
▪ It seems to me that there is a sort of dialectic we need to preserve when thinking about autonomy.
▪ Britain knows it has to preserve Hong Kong's autonomy.
retain
▪ Nevertheless, cinema ultimately retains a relative autonomy in Levin's tribute.
▪ If the scientists could not retain their scientific autonomy, Oppenheimer told Washington, some would refuse to join the project.
▪ The message promised that the agency would retain its name, autonomy and management while giving the firm worldwide capabilities.
▪ Stax got $ 6 million up front as a quasi loan / advance and retained creative autonomy.
▪ Even those who retain a degree of autonomy over their work agreed that marketing is increasingly controlled by more powerful interests.
seek
▪ It is clear that those who seek autonomy may also seek opportunities to be creative.
▪ Others seek autonomy and believe unquestionably that they are creative.
▪ Still others seek autonomy but do not seek creativity.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the autonomy of the individual
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Being in employment had given these women personal confidence, a sense of independence, autonomy and pride.
▪ First, the relative autonomy of railway management means that the assessment of its performance by outside authorities is problematic.
▪ However, a consequence of this autonomy is their responsibility for seeing that housework gets done.
▪ It means simply freedom from coercion by others and it is achieved when a sphere of private autonomy is created.
▪ Maybe I made a mistake in creating a rigid opposition between marriage and autonomy.
▪ These changes have created conflicts and tensions such as between old and new technological trajectories and between national autonomy and international co-operation.
▪ To what degree is that positive cycle of challenge and autonomy happening for you in your work now?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Autonomy

Autonomy \Au*ton"o*my\, n. [Gr. ?: cf. F. autonomie. See Autonomous.]

  1. The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.

  2. (Metaph.) The sovereignty of reason in the sphere of morals; or man's power, as possessed of reason, to give law to himself. In this, according to Kant, consist the true nature and only possible proof of liberty.
    --Fleming.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
autonomy

1620s, of states, from Greek autonomia "independence," noun of quality from autonomos "independent, living by one's own laws," from auto- "self" (see auto-) + nomos "custom, law" (see numismatics). Of persons, from 1803.

Wiktionary
autonomy

n. 1 Self-government; freedom to act or function independently. 2 (label en philosophy) The capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision. 3 (label en mechanics) The capacity of a system to make a decision about its actions without the involvement of another system or operator. 4 (label en Christianity) The status of a church whose highest-ranking bishop is appointed by the patriarch of the mother church, but which is self-governing in all other respects. Compare (term autocephaly English).

WordNet
autonomy

  1. n. immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence [syn: liberty]

  2. personal independence [syn: self-direction, self-reliance, self-sufficiency]

Wikipedia
Autonomy

Autonomy ( Ancient Greek: αὐτονομία autonomia from αὐτόνομος autonomos from αὐτο- auto- "self" and νόμος nomos, "law", hence when combined understood to mean "one who gives oneself one's own law") is a concept found in moral, political, and bioethical philosophy. Within these contexts, it is the capacity of a rational individual to make an informed, un-coerced decision.

Autonomy (disambiguation)

Autonomy is the capacity of a rational individual to make an informed, un-coerced decision; or, in politics, self-government.

Autonomy may also refer to:

  • Autonomy (Eastern Christianity), the status of a hierarchical church
  • Autonomy (novel), a 2009 novel based on the Doctor Who TV series
  • HP Autonomy, an enterprise software company owned by Hewlett Packard, previously called Autonomy Corporation
  • Autonomy, a 1919 play by Philip Barry
  • "Autonomy", a song by The Buzzcocks on their album Another Music in a Different Kitchen, covered by The Offspring
Autonomy (novel)

Autonomy is a BBC Books original novel written by Daniel Blythe and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Tenth Doctor without an official companion. It was released on 3 September 2009, alongside The Taking of Chelsea 426 and The Krillitane Storm. The Doctor visits Hyperville and encounters his nemesis, the Autons.

Autonomy (album)

Autonomy is the ninth full-length studio album by Indonesian experimental metal band Kekal, first released on 19 December 2012 as CD version by German record label Whirlwind Records and then digitally by Indonesian record label Yes No Wave Music on June 29, 2013. This is a second Kekal album being recorded and released without official band members. The digital version of Autonomy can be downloaded for free from Archive.org.

There are two official music videos published for this album: "Futuride" and "Rare Earth Elements", released by the band on YouTube prior to the album's release date.

Usage examples of "autonomy".

The other possibility was that the entry of the German troops would take place in a peaceful manner, in which case it would be easy for the Fuehrer to accord Czechoslovakia a generous way of life of her own, autonomy, and a certain measure of national freedom.

In 1926 when the two commissions promised by the Washington Conference were meeting in Peking and Shanghai to review tariff autonomy and extrality, China hardly had a government.

We may well wonder whether this new autonomy within the culture was the freedom Renan hoped his philological Orientalist science would bring or whether, so far as a critical historian of Orientalism is concerned, it set up a complex affiliation between Orientalism and its putative human subject matter that is based finally on power and not really on disinterested objectivity.

The rigidifying conditions around them are ill-suited to their need for autonomy, and they both give up on their chosen professions, retreating to the obscure periphery of their society.

This did not mean subjectivism, or religious autonomy, for the Reformers held passionately to an ideal of objective truth, but it did mean that every soul had the right to make its personal account with God, without mediation of priest or sacrament.

This is how the multitude gains the power to affirm its autonomy, traveling and expressing itself through an apparatus of widespread, transversal territorial reappropriation.

This subversion is true not only of Marxist theory explicitly engaged in polemics against literary autonomy, but also of deconstructionist theory, even at its most hermetic and abstract.

Paradoxically almost, the linguistic facility which makes Nabokov such an excellent game-player also encourages these readers, through its defamiliarizing effects, to think anew about artistry and reality, subjectivity and alterity, authority and autonomy.

Demands for autonomy and independence for the so-called State of Deseret have been and will continue to be rejected out of hand.

She sees in Saul the househusband who will enable her parental ambitions without disabling her autonomy.

It was necessary to learn how the Louisianians regarded the Federal government, how much prejudice they felt against the Atlantic States, and whether they could be influenced to break away from the Union and to organize a separate autonomy.

There, he would be so far removed from Omdurman that he could establish virtual autonomy while paying lip service to Abdullahi.

The parties met at Rambouillet, France, on February 6, to work out the details of an agreement that would restore autonomy, protect the Kosovars from oppression with a NATO-led operation, disarm the KLA, and allow the Serb army to continue to patrol the border.

Relative autonomy simply refers to a certain flexibility in the face of changing environmental conditions.

In both cases the procedural autonomy, differential application, and territorialized links to various segments of the population, together with the specific and limited exercise of legitimate violence, were not generally in contradiction with the principle of a coherent and unified ordering.