semiautonomous
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- adjective
- /ˌsɛmiɔːˈtɒnəməs/
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semiautónomo
- Shiite and Kurdish leaders will have to back down from their efforts to create semiautonomous states in the north and the south.
Examples
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This resulted in small, semiautonomous organizations, but also in large, integrated organizations.
Academic text (1996) -
Yet the upgrading of UNEP to a semiautonomous specialized organ within the UN appears not to be an overly ambitious step.
Academic text (2000) -
Sierra provinces operated in a semiautonomous fashion, in part because transportation links were limited.
Academic text (1994) -
Local Al-Qaeda leaders and affiliated groups have managed to maintain semiautonomous control over their individual organizations while still reporting to the terrorist group's central leadership.
Academic text (2007) -
It gave the South its own semiautonomous government and an independent standing army, and required the upcoming referendum on secession.
Academic text (2011) -
These associations, largely trade-related groups, would have semiautonomous status vis-à-vis the state.
Academic text (2008) -
In fact, they frequently created a politically insulated bureaucratic elite, with planning concentrated in semiautonomous institutes and councils.
Academic text (1992) -
From 1945 to 1991, Yugoslavia was a mixture of religious and ethnic groups that consisted of six republics and two semiautonomous regions (Figure 2).
Academic text (1997) -
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a semiautonomous agency within the Department of Energy, is awarding $27.5 million in grants to universities and colleges to conduct research related to stockpile stewardship or to maintenance of the U.S. nuclear weapons inventory.
Academic text (2002) -
The semiautonomous vehicles are designed to assist drivers while still requiring their attention on the road.
Antonyms
How Autonomous
Surface Forms
Morphology
semiautonomous = autonomous (transparent) = semi + autonomous
The word is transparently formed by adding semi- to autonomous, giving the meaning 'partly autonomous'.
Etymology
Semiautonomous comes from semi- meaning 'half' or 'partly' and autonomous meaning 'self-ruling' or 'working on its own', like automatic things that work by themselves. So, a semiautonomous machine, division, or region can work or make its own choices to some degree, but not completely on its own.