The condition or right of a state, institution, group, etc., to make its own laws or rules and administer its own affairs; self-government…

The action or quality of governing oneself; autonomy; freedom of action, decision, or government.

Administration by a state, institution, etc., of its own affairs without external direction or intervention; autonomy.

Administration by a state, institution, etc., of its own affairs without external direction or intervention; autonomy; = self-government, n. 2.

Self-government.

self-government; = autonomy, n. 1a; (also) a self-governed state or society.

Management or control of a nation, organization, group, etc., by itself; the distribution of political power to individual groups or regions, as…

With reference to a country, organization, or other body: self-government, self-rule.

Governance of a country, organization, etc., by itself; autonomy, independence. Cf. self-government, n. 2. Now the usual sense.

The government of a colony, dependent country, province, or region by its own citizens; self-government. Now chiefly with lower-case initials.

Autonomy as a political system or principle; advocacy of or belief in the right or condition of self-government.

In Malaysia and Indonesia: freedom, independence.