Usually means: Self-governing, independent decision-making ability.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word autonomy:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. autonomy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. autonomy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. autonomy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. autonomy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. autonomy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Autonomy, autonomy: Wordnik
  7. autonomy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. autonomy: Wiktionary
  9. autonomy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. autonomy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. autonomy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. autonomy: Dictionary.com
  13. autonomy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. autonomy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Autonomy (Drenge EP), Autonomy (album), Autonomy (disambiguation), Autonomy (software), Autonomy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Autonomy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. autonomy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. autonomy: Rhymezone
  19. Autonomy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. autonomy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. autonomy: Free Dictionary
  22. autonomy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. autonomy: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. autonomy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Health Insurance Glossary (No longer online)
  3. autonomy: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Autonomy: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. autonomy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. autonomy: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. autonomy: Political
  2. Glossary of Ethical Terms (No longer online)
  3. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  4. autonomy: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)
  5. Dictionary of Sorts (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. autonomy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The right or condition of self-government; freedom to act or function independently.
noun:  (government, countable) A self-governing country or region.
noun:  (philosophy, uncountable) The capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision.
noun:  (mechanics, uncountable) The capacity of a system to make a decision about its actions without the involvement of another system or operator.
noun:  (Christianity, uncountable) The status of a church whose highest-ranking bishop is appointed by the patriarch of the mother church, but which is self-governing in all other respects. Compare autocephaly.

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