Definition of self-governing in English:

self-governing

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adjective

1Exercising control over one's own affairs.
‘The AAUP has consistently held that academic freedom can be maintained only so long as faculty remain autonomous and self-governing.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
independent, sovereign, autonomous, non-aligned, free
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1. 1.1(of a British hospital or school) having opted out of local authority control.
  ‘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.’
  ‘The Prime Minister's idea was to have a cadre of entrepreneurial, self-governing, independent hospitals operating freely within the NHS.’
  ‘Local authorities will play an even bigger role in the admission policies of the new self-governing state schools, it emerged yesterday.’
  ‘As a group of self-governing, state-funded schools, that took bright pupils from state primary schools, they were once a beacon of excellence.’
2. 1.2(of a former colony or dependency) administering its own affairs.
  ‘Rapid economic development followed, the country becoming the crown colony of Southern Rhodesia in 1911 and a self-governing colony in 1923.’
  ‘Greenland is classified as a self-governing dependency and has been ruled by Denmark since 1721.’
  ‘How could a colony be self-governing and still part of the empire?’
  ‘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.’
  ‘New Zealand became a self-governing colony of Britain in 1852, and was granted dominion status within the empire in 1907.’
  ‘When representative government was introduced to Bermuda in 1620, it became a self-governing colony.’
  ‘When the federation was terminated, Barbados reverted to its former status as a self-governing colony.’
  ‘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.’
  ‘The Faroe Islands are a self-governing region of the Kingdom of Denmark.’
  ‘As a self-governing Dominion within the British Empire, New Zealand was not technically a sovereign state in 1939.’
  ‘In 1910 the Union of South Africa, a self-governing dominion within the British Empire, was created.’
  ‘Canada, for instance, was for a hundred years a self-governing dominion within the British Empire.’
  ‘The self-governing British colony may legalize casinos, although there is opposition to it.’