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Autarchy

//ˈɔːtəki// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A condition of absolute power. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    Alternative spelling of autarky (“personal condition or state of self-reliance; (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency; self-sufficient country or region”). alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    a political system governed by a single individual wordnet
  4. 4
    Autocracy (absolute rule by a single person). countable, uncountable

    "Like Philip's, Franco's autarchy was shrouded in religiosity—not Christianity alone, but also a sort of dim Wagnerian vision of hero-gods and Valhallas, a gloomy level of devotion on which paganism, Catholicism and the apotheosis of the State could conveniently be mingled."

  5. 5
    economic independence as a national policy wordnet
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  1. 6
    Sovereignty or self-government (national political independence). countable, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin autarchia, from Koine Greek αὐταρχία (autarkhía, “absolute power, sovereignty, autocracy”), from αὔταρχος (aútarkhos, “autocratic”), from αὐτ- (aut-, “self”) + ἄρχω (árkhō, “to rule, govern”).

Etymology 2

See autarky.

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