1. Word finder
  2. Word definitions
  3. self-governing

Find the word definition

What is "self-governing"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
self-governing
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hospital
▪ Immediately before the local elections two of the new self-governing hospital trusts announced 1,000 redundancies.
status
▪ For this reason self-governing status was simply not on the agenda for any of its hospitals.
trust
▪ Regional authorities face the chop and a smaller number of new committees will keep an eye on the self-governing trusts.
▪ Some are managed by the districts themselves, others are self-governing trusts.
▪ Until the recent development of self-governing trust hospitals, health service pay and conditions were agreed nationally.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Many of the larger communities felt they would be better off if they were self-governing.
▪ The farmers are members of a small self-governing co-operative group.
▪ The Orthodox Church is composed of 23 self-governing churches.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Each of these was built along the Babylonian model, as a self-governing fragment of the fallen Judean kingdom.
▪ In further education, it devolves power from local authorities to local self-governing boards.
▪ In order to stimulate competition, large hospitals were encouraged to become self-governing.
▪ Parents have criticised the move as a tactic to wreck their self-governing move.
▪ Regional authorities face the chop and a smaller number of new committees will keep an eye on the self-governing trusts.
▪ The health authority has agreed to hear a presentation on self-governing trusts at its next meeting on Monday.
▪ The Orthodox Church is composed of 23 self-governing churches that emerged from the Byzantine Empire.
▪ While they exist to serve public purposes, they are self-governing and only subject to a limited state control.
WordNet
self-governing

adj. of political bodies; "an autonomous judiciary"; "a sovereign state" [syn: autonomous, independent, sovereign]

Usage examples of "self-governing".

They are abuses, but only temporary abuses, and the Southern States, when restored to the Union, will resume their rights in their own sphere, as self-governing communities, and legalize or undo the unwarrantable acts of the Federal Executive.

They lose, besides incurring, so far as disloyal, the pains and penalties of treason, their political rights, or right, as has just been said, to be in their own department self-governing communities, with the right of representation in Congress and the electoral colleges, and to sit in the national convention, or of being counted in the ratification of amendments to the constitution--precisely what it was shown a Territorial people gain by being admitted as a State into the Union.

For centuries these confraternities of gondoliers who presided over the ferries, or traghetti, of Venice had been corporations, self-governing, with officers and endowments recognized by the Republic, and with a standard of gondolier morals admirably defined in their codes--those "Mariegole" which were luxuriously bound and printed, with capitals of vermilion, a page here and there glowing like an illuminated missal with the legend of the patron saint of the traghetto, wherein one might read such admonitions as would make all men wiser.