autarkic
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9.9
- adjective
- /ɔːˈtɑrkɪk/
- Specialized
- In order to become more self-reliant, the country adopted an autarkic economic policy that minimized imports.
- autarkic strategy
- autarkic economy
Examples
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Politically, the Indian government has taken an increasingly critical view of its earlier statist and autarkic strategies.
Academic text (1997) -
After the Second World War, Eastern European countries sought to develop fairly autarkic industrialized economies.
Academic text (1994) -
Starting with the New Industrial Policy Statement of 1991, a series of measures have gradually altered the earlier dirigiste and autarkic strategy.
Academic text (1997) -
The internationalization of U.S. defense production and military technology stood in sharp contrast with the autarkic production of the Soviet Union, which contributed to a technological gap.
Academic text (2008) -
In this age of advanced weaponry and global interconnection, an autarkic security strategy is an unattractive alternative to a system of alliances.
Academic text (1990) -
Spain and Portugal had largely closed, autarkic, corporatist, and mercantilist or statist economic systems until the mid-1950s.
Academic text (2002) -
Hong Kong was no longer a relatively autarkic island whose economic fortune rested primarily on Western markets and on linkages with Asian countries other than the PRC.
Academic text (1990) -
Hong Kong's economic success as an autarkic island relatively insulated from the Chinese mainland was undermined even before the Sino-British negotiations of 1982.
Academic text (1990) -
Indeed, I believe Mexico views NAFTA as a vehicle for better integrating its formerly autarkic economy into the global system; more efficient patterns of trade and investment with the United States and Canada will strengthen Mexico's ties with a competitive world economy, not weaken them.
Academic text (1991) -
Additionally, policymakers believed that advancing the international economic system and enlarging the capitalist trading bloc provided a bulwark against autarkic economic practices that many viewed as significant causes of the Great Depression and World War II.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
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3.9
Can live without help from other people
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5.7
Able to keep working without help from others
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3.9
Has enough money to live without help from others
1
7.4
Able to provide for yourself without help from others
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9.9
Economically self-sufficient without relying on imports
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9.9
A country that is politically or economically independent and meets its own needs
Antonyms
How Self-Sufficient
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word autarkic comes from Greek parts auto- meaning 'self' and -arkos meaning 'enough', so it means 'self-enough'. Like automatic and autonomy, which use auto- for 'self', autarkic describes a country or economy that tries to be self-sufficient and not rely on imports.