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autarky
 
SYLLABICATION:au·tar·ky
PRONUNCIATION:  ôtärk
VARIANT FORMS: or au·tar·chy
NOUN:Inflected forms: pl. au·tar·kies or au·tar·chies
1. A policy of national self-sufficiency and nonreliance on imports or economic aid. 2. A self-sufficient region or country.
ETYMOLOGY:Greek autarkeia, self-sufficiency, from autarks, self-sufficient : auto-, auto- + arkein, to suffice.
OTHER FORMS:au·tarkic (-kk) , au·tarki·cal (-k-kl) —ADJECTIVE
 
 
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