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单词 self-government
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Definition of self-government in English:

self-government

noun ˌsɛlfˈɡʌv(ə)nməntsɛlf ˈɡəvər(n)mənt
mass noun
  • 1Government of a country by its own people, especially after having been a colony.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The key is not so much to reduce group representation in federal bodies as it is to balance group representation with self-government.
    • Democratic self-government is not the most important thing in the world - but it's hardly chopped liver, either.
    • Freedom, democracy, security, solidarity, free enterprise and self-government are the main principles of the programme.
    • It consisted of the landed gentlemen of NSW who assumed they would constitute the government when the colony acquired self-government.
    • In June 1964, Britain accepted proposals for democratic self-government in Botswana.
    • Its claims are not incompatible with those of science, technology, and democratic self-government.
    • New Zealand finally emerged as an imperial power in its own right after gaining self-government from Britain at the turn of the century.
    • The purpose of their constitutions is to contract radically the sphere of self-government - of democratic politics.
    • In others, the push for self-government had more respectable democratic credentials.
    • The final point to note about the elections is that democracy is meant to be about self-government.
    • The colony gained internal self-government in 1964, becoming fully independent on 10 July 1973.
    • He demanded responsible parliamentary government, local self-government and an independent judiciary.
    • This power is realised directly through the organs of state power and local self-government.
    • A former province of a state is being prepared for substantial autonomy and self-government.
    • It started well, but devolution quickly became an end in itself rather than a start of a process of democratisation and self-government.
    • Officially, Puerto Rico became a U.S. commonwealth in 1952, when the island was granted limited self-government.
    • Their governments have very limited powers, and their people are too busy practicing self-government to worry about problems in other countries.
    • That said, the problem still exists that self-government will not guarantee democracy or an openness that will take on board the wishes of ordinary people.
    • By disempowerment, the tribunal referred to the denigration and destruction of Maori autonomy, or self-government.
    • This vision of cooperative self-government often produced republicanism and even democracy comparable to classical Greek democracy.
    Synonyms
    independence, self-rule, home rule, self-legislation, self-determination, sovereignty, autonomy, non-alignment, freedom
  • 2

    old-fashioned term for self-control
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The purposes of this extensive popular involvement in an enlarged domain of public life are at once greater self-government and self-realization.

Derivatives

  • self-governed

  • adjective ˌsɛlfˈɡʌvəndˌsɛlfˈɡəvərnd
    • (of a region or organization) having the freedom to govern itself or control its own affairs.

      the small island nation is self-governed
      Example sentencesExamples
      • self-funded, self-governed corporations
      • His conscious decision to leave behind his family ties, which also implies a deliberate distancing from his Southern heritage, makes him apt to develop a self-governed identity and to acquire legacies which are chosen, not given.
      • The Irish industry is entirely self-governed but there are government proposals to introduce legislation for the industry.
      • Mount Athos is a self-governed part of the Greek state subject to that country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs politically, and to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in regards to religion.
 
 

Definition of self-government in US English:

self-government

nounsɛlf ˈɡəvər(n)məntself ˈɡəvər(n)mənt
  • 1Government of a country by its own people, especially after having been a colony.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Democratic self-government is not the most important thing in the world - but it's hardly chopped liver, either.
    • He demanded responsible parliamentary government, local self-government and an independent judiciary.
    • In June 1964, Britain accepted proposals for democratic self-government in Botswana.
    • The purpose of their constitutions is to contract radically the sphere of self-government - of democratic politics.
    • The final point to note about the elections is that democracy is meant to be about self-government.
    • By disempowerment, the tribunal referred to the denigration and destruction of Maori autonomy, or self-government.
    • It started well, but devolution quickly became an end in itself rather than a start of a process of democratisation and self-government.
    • Their governments have very limited powers, and their people are too busy practicing self-government to worry about problems in other countries.
    • The colony gained internal self-government in 1964, becoming fully independent on 10 July 1973.
    • A former province of a state is being prepared for substantial autonomy and self-government.
    • This power is realised directly through the organs of state power and local self-government.
    • That said, the problem still exists that self-government will not guarantee democracy or an openness that will take on board the wishes of ordinary people.
    • New Zealand finally emerged as an imperial power in its own right after gaining self-government from Britain at the turn of the century.
    • Officially, Puerto Rico became a U.S. commonwealth in 1952, when the island was granted limited self-government.
    • Its claims are not incompatible with those of science, technology, and democratic self-government.
    • Freedom, democracy, security, solidarity, free enterprise and self-government are the main principles of the programme.
    • In others, the push for self-government had more respectable democratic credentials.
    • It consisted of the landed gentlemen of NSW who assumed they would constitute the government when the colony acquired self-government.
    • This vision of cooperative self-government often produced republicanism and even democracy comparable to classical Greek democracy.
    • The key is not so much to reduce group representation in federal bodies as it is to balance group representation with self-government.
    Synonyms
    independence, self-rule, home rule, self-legislation, self-determination, sovereignty, autonomy, non-alignment, freedom
  • 2

    old-fashioned term for self-control
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The purposes of this extensive popular involvement in an enlarged domain of public life are at once greater self-government and self-realization.
 
 
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