self-rule

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ rule.

Noun

self-rule (uncountable)

1. Rule of a group of people by their own leaders as opposed to rule imposed by a foreign government or people.

   Synonym: self-government

   Britain resumed direct control of North Ireland after just nine weeks of self-rule.

   • 1985, Tiziano Terzani, The Forbidden Door‎^[1], Asia 2000 Ltd, pages 223-224:

     Only two years ago a group of Uighur dissidents were discovered in Xinjiang, planning a province-wide uprising against Chinese rule. The slogan they were using was, "We want self-rule. We don't want to be dominated."

   • 2022 June 10, “'Ukraine today could be East Asia tomorrow': Japan PM warns”, in France 24‎^[2], archived from the original on 10 June 2022:

     Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida warned a security summit Friday that "Ukraine today may be East Asia tomorrow", as concerns grow that China could invade democratic, self-ruled Taiwan.

Translations

rule of a group of people by their own leaders

• Danish: selvstyre n
• Esperanto: memregado
• Finnish: itsehallinto (fi)
• Galician: goberno autónomo m
• Greek: αυτοκυβέρνηση (el) f (aftokyvérnisi)
• Irish: féinriail f
• Punjabi: ਸ੍ਵਰਾਜ (pa) m (svrāj)
• Russian: самоуправление (ru) n (samoupravlenije)
• Swedish: självstyre (sv) n

See also

• self-determination

Anagrams

• fuellers