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Self-determination

//ˌsɛlfdɪˌtɜː(ɹ)mɪˈneɪʃən// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The ability or human right to make one's own decisions without interference from others uncountable
  2. 2
    determination of one's own fate or course of action without compulsion wordnet
  3. 3
    The political independence of a people uncountable

    "The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has categorically ruled out any new negotiations saying the future of the Falklands can only be decided by the islanders themselves in accordance with the UN principle of self-determination."

  4. 4
    government of a political unit by its own people wordnet
  5. 5
    self-determination of peoples: the collective right to determine its own destiny in the international order, to choose its own political status and to determine its own form of economic, cultural and social development, the right to establish a state uncountable

Etymology

From self- + determination.

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