autonomy
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5.7
- noun
- /ɔːˈtɑːnəmi/
- I think that was that's important for you as a person to have your own autonomy and say, OK, I've done this wrong.
- personal autonomy
- respect for autonomy
- exercise autonomy
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Watch on YouTubeAnd I think having a sense of power and autonomy is pretty vital too.
- And I think having a sense of power and autonomy is pretty vital too.
- It matters what you feel about their autonomy versus yours.
- Our model is freedom of the individual, autonomy and free market capitalism.
- What this means is that sexual autonomy matters to animals, right?
- That's not that, that's not safety, that's not autonomy over my own mood, my confidence.
- Remember, healing is about autonomy and individuation.
- And so that means to consciously encourage as much autonomy as possible.
- And their backlash against like, women having autonomy at these roles being challenged.
- Wouldn't it provides worker opportunity to exercise autonomy on the job.
- He wants to promote what we could call autonomy and true discussion and interpretation.
- Like the two key metrics of success is how much autonomy do I have and how I spend my time.
- As your reputation grows, your autonomy grows.
Examples
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Having the autonomy to choose her own path in life has made her more confident.
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Workers have lost so much, not just our afternoon naps and our holidays, but our autonomy, our dignity.
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Let me allow my kids to practice some form of autonomy in the house.
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Like when I think about the experience that I had, I had full autonomy in that situation, right?
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And I think having a sense of power and autonomy is pretty vital too.
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Allowing students to work at their own pace provided them autonomy for their progress.
Academic text (2011) -
I can have the stability and the security, but I can also have the freedom and the autonomy.
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Neither side has been willing to give up much autonomy for the sake of cooperation.
Academic text (1999) -
In this company, we fully understand the importance of a woman's financial autonomy.
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Because here, freedom and autonomy are the rights of all sentient beings.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
The right to act, speak, or think as you want without being stopped
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3.0
Freedom from control by others, for example when a country is free or a person supports themselves
120
8.0
A country's right to govern itself without outside control
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5.8
Ability to choose what you do without being controlled by outside forces
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5.1
Freedom to decide what to do in a situation
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3.2
The freedom to act, speak, or think without unnecessary restriction
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4.3
The right of a group or nation to choose their government
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5.4
The ability to make your own choices and act
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8.5
Choosing to do something by your own will without being forced
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4.1
Being able to do things and meet needs without help from others
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3.5
The right to choose what to think and do without unfair control by others
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5.6
Being able to meet your own needs without help from others
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4.3
A group or region that makes and follows its own rules without outside control
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4.1
Freedom to act and make choices without someone controlling you
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4.1
The freedom to act or decide without being told what to do
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5.8
Government by a country's own people instead of by a foreign power
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6.1
Being able to choose and control your own actions and learning
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5.6
Freedom from control by other people or groups
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9.0
The ability of people or groups to act freely and make their own choices
Antonyms
Compounds
1
6.7
The right of local governments to make some decisions without the national government, like education and health
How Independent
Surface Forms
Morphology
autonomy = auto + nom + y
The word is historically built from a learned classical formation meaning roughly 'self-rule', but the bound root is not transparent enough for an average B1 learner to reliably infer 'personal independence' from the parts.
Etymology
Autonomy comes from the Greek parts auto- ('self') and -nomy ('rule' or 'law'), the same -nomy you see in astronomy. So autonomy means 'self-rule' and is about being free to make your own choices.