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Self-governing

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    autonomous not-comparable

    "Most Zionists hoped for a state of their own, but early in the 20th century, writers like Hillel Solotaroff and Chaim Zhitlowsky, both Yiddish-speaking immigrant intellectuals in New York, imagined another alternative: a federation of self-governing anarchist communes in Palestine that would defend Jewish life without relying on state power."

Adjective
  1. 1
    (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces wordnet

Etymology

From self- + governing.

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