Dictionary Entry
autonomisation
Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/aw-tuh-nuh-muh-zay-shun/Word FrequencyRare (0.48)Curriculum FrequencyLess common (1)The process of making something autonomous or self-governing.
In a Sentence
“The autonomisation of the regional councils gave them greater control over local education policies.”
Published Usage Examples
“During these years, the struggle was more and more taken in hand by Hamas, Jihad and the PFLP, while Fatah was imploding: the depoliticization that had been orchestrated by the PA in the 1990s and the promotion of local potentates who had their own clientele networks largely contributed to the autonomisation of notable”
“This is reflected in the emergence of a series of artistic and literary movements such as symbolism and Decadence that reject 'the means-end rationality of the bourgeois everyday' by declaring the lack of any social or political purpose for art. xi According to Peter Bürger, the emergence of the 20th-century European a”
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Origin
From French autonomisation, from autonomiser ‘make autonomous’, based on autonomy.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “autonomisation”
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