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Definition of self-governing in English: self-governingadjective ˌsɛlfˈɡʌv(ə)nɪŋ 1Exercising control over one's own affairs. Example sentencesExamples - For the promise of ‘the end of history’ to come true, competent self-governing institutions have to come into being.
- He wanted to have a community that was as self-governing as possible.
- As these atrocities were happening, the self-governing body within the ghetto collected and analysed the information and began preparing for resistance.
- Political thinkers imagined the American family as a factory specifically designed to turn out self-governing citizens - something quite different from what other kinds of families did.
- The Athenians were free men because they were collectively self-governing, although they lacked personal independence and civil liberties, and were expected to sacrifice their pleasures for the sake of the polis.
- The AAUP has consistently held that academic freedom can be maintained only so long as faculty remain autonomous and self-governing.
Synonyms independent, sovereign, autonomous, non-aligned, free - 1.1 (of a British hospital or school) having opted out of local authority control.
Example sentencesExamples - The Prime Minister's idea was to have a cadre of entrepreneurial, self-governing, independent hospitals operating freely within the NHS.
- As a group of self-governing, state-funded schools, that took bright pupils from state primary schools, they were once a beacon of excellence.
- Local authorities will play an even bigger role in the admission policies of the new self-governing state schools, it emerged yesterday.
- Direct-grant schools were entirely self-governing and independent, but took pupils funded by the state.
- Schools are now self-governing and what little is left to strategic planning is being hived off to Education Action Zones.
- Staff at Princess Margaret Hospital have been rehearsing and refining their major incident plan since 1993, when the hospital became a self-governing trust.
- 1.2 (of a former colony or dependency) administering its own affairs.
Example sentencesExamples - New Zealand became a self-governing colony of Britain in 1852, and was granted dominion status within the empire in 1907.
- Canada, for instance, was for a hundred years a self-governing dominion within the British Empire.
- The Faroe Islands are a self-governing region of the Kingdom of Denmark.
- When representative government was introduced to Bermuda in 1620, it became a self-governing colony.
- He also dealt with Southern Rhodesia, though it was still officially a self-governing colony.
- The self-governing British colony may legalize casinos, although there is opposition to it.
- It was seen as an historical occasion, marking the first time that soldiers of a self-governing Australian colony were to fight in an imperial war.
- How could a colony be self-governing and still part of the empire?
- Greenland is classified as a self-governing dependency and has been ruled by Denmark since 1721.
- When the federation was terminated, Barbados reverted to its former status as a self-governing colony.
- In 1910 the Union of South Africa, a self-governing dominion within the British Empire, was created.
- Rapid economic development followed, the country becoming the crown colony of Southern Rhodesia in 1911 and a self-governing colony in 1923.
- As a self-governing Dominion within the British Empire, New Zealand was not technically a sovereign state in 1939.
- Until 1980, Rhodesia was an internally self-governing colony with its own legislature, civil service, armed forces, and police.
Definition of self-governing in US English: self-governingadjectiveˌself ˈɡəvərniNG 1Exercising control over one's own affairs. Example sentencesExamples - The AAUP has consistently held that academic freedom can be maintained only so long as faculty remain autonomous and self-governing.
- For the promise of ‘the end of history’ to come true, competent self-governing institutions have to come into being.
- Political thinkers imagined the American family as a factory specifically designed to turn out self-governing citizens - something quite different from what other kinds of families did.
- As these atrocities were happening, the self-governing body within the ghetto collected and analysed the information and began preparing for resistance.
- He wanted to have a community that was as self-governing as possible.
- The Athenians were free men because they were collectively self-governing, although they lacked personal independence and civil liberties, and were expected to sacrifice their pleasures for the sake of the polis.
Synonyms independent, sovereign, autonomous, non-aligned, free - 1.1 (of a British hospital or school) having opted out of local authority control.
Example sentencesExamples - Local authorities will play an even bigger role in the admission policies of the new self-governing state schools, it emerged yesterday.
- The Prime Minister's idea was to have a cadre of entrepreneurial, self-governing, independent hospitals operating freely within the NHS.
- Direct-grant schools were entirely self-governing and independent, but took pupils funded by the state.
- Staff at Princess Margaret Hospital have been rehearsing and refining their major incident plan since 1993, when the hospital became a self-governing trust.
- Schools are now self-governing and what little is left to strategic planning is being hived off to Education Action Zones.
- As a group of self-governing, state-funded schools, that took bright pupils from state primary schools, they were once a beacon of excellence.
- 1.2 (of a former colony or dependency) administering its own affairs.
Example sentencesExamples - As a self-governing Dominion within the British Empire, New Zealand was not technically a sovereign state in 1939.
- The self-governing British colony may legalize casinos, although there is opposition to it.
- Greenland is classified as a self-governing dependency and has been ruled by Denmark since 1721.
- When representative government was introduced to Bermuda in 1620, it became a self-governing colony.
- How could a colony be self-governing and still part of the empire?
- When the federation was terminated, Barbados reverted to its former status as a self-governing colony.
- The Faroe Islands are a self-governing region of the Kingdom of Denmark.
- In 1910 the Union of South Africa, a self-governing dominion within the British Empire, was created.
- New Zealand became a self-governing colony of Britain in 1852, and was granted dominion status within the empire in 1907.
- Rapid economic development followed, the country becoming the crown colony of Southern Rhodesia in 1911 and a self-governing colony in 1923.
- He also dealt with Southern Rhodesia, though it was still officially a self-governing colony.
- Until 1980, Rhodesia was an internally self-governing colony with its own legislature, civil service, armed forces, and police.
- Canada, for instance, was for a hundred years a self-governing dominion within the British Empire.
- It was seen as an historical occasion, marking the first time that soldiers of a self-governing Australian colony were to fight in an imperial war.
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