autarchic
- adjective
- /ɔːˈtɑrkɪk/
- Formal
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autárquico
- Yet, the strategy of autarchic economic reactivation ultimately led to an unprecedented economic collapse.
- autarchic economic
Examples
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The most recent expansion of capitalist integration, termed "globalization of the economy," has made autarchic national economic planning seem anachronistic.
Academic text (2000) -
The apparently autarchic vision of a Maoist China or a Hoxhatist Albania does not particularly attract them.
Academic text (1992) -
Peripheral states facing structural dependency and vulnerability have followed a number of possible approaches in the last two decades or so in order to cope with this situation: de-linking, or cutting themselves off from the global market as much as possible, in a few autarchic regimes, e.g., Albania and, at one time, Cambodia.
Academic text (1992) -
The community aimed to become autarchic by producing all the goods they needed locally.
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Many believe that an autarchic economy can promote independence from global markets.
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After years of relying on imports, the country sought to adopt autarchic policies to sustain itself economically.
Synonyms
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Can live without help from other people
A country or economy that makes what it needs and does not rely on imports
Economically self-sufficient without relying on imports
Able to provide for yourself without help from others
Having absolute political control or complete economic self-sufficiency
Antonyms
How Self-sufficient
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word autarchic comes from Greek parts auto- meaning 'self' and -arkein meaning 'to be enough', like in autonomy. So, autarchic means 'self-sufficient' or independent.