autonomist
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7.9
- noun
- /ɔːˈtɒnəmɪst/
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autonomista
- Many autonomists believe that local communities should have the right to make their own decisions.
Examples
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The old network largely consisted of autonomists and independent entrepreneurs, both in hospitals and doctors' offices.
Academic text (1990) -
At the end of the demonstration, autonomists and students began a new occupation, the new "verdi15," while Gobetti High School was also occupied.
Blog text (3) -
The captain heard the autonomists as well.
Fiction book (1993) -
I like the connotation, but in terms of definitions, what the term describes is an Autonomist.
Blog text (5) -
What was perhaps most inspiring about the W. German Autonomists was their power as a radical force in that country.
Blog text (4) -
The Autonomists provided an example of organizing resistance in an advanced industrialized nation-state, and they did so with an impact.
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" While she was baking, she heard autonomists plotting, dreaming the old dream of a free Alsace, and she put dough in her ears.
Fiction book (1993) -
Although writing like Buckle in a way accessible to all classes, Ortega thinks as an elitist, a pluralist, an autonomist, and a liberal socialist.
Academic text (2004) -
The philosopher and former Autonomist Paolo Virno has even argued that under the conditions of post-Fordist immaterial labor, performance art has collapsed the distinction between productive labor and political action.
Academic text (2012) -
Back when I was first becoming involved in the North American anarchist movement, in the late 1980s, the W. German Autonomists were to us what the Greek anarchists are to today's generation of militants: a source of new ideas, tactics, slogans, and above all, inspiration.
Blog text (4)
Synonyms
A person who wants power moved from a central government to local governments
How Supportive
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
An autonomist comes from auto- 'self' and nomos 'rule', so an autonomist is a person who wants 'self-rule' or local government for their region or group.