self-government
An organization that is self-governing is controlled by a group of people independent of central or local government: （机构）自治的
How will the most popular self-governing schools decide which pupils to turn away?最受欢迎的自治学校将如何决定拒收哪些学生？
a self-governing hospital自治医院
The Faroe Islands are self-governing, but have been for many years a colony of Denmark.
a self-governing tribal area along Afghanistan's border
They want to incorporate the oil-rich area into their self-governing region.
Henry VIII created the Church of England, a self-governing community of Christian worshipers.
The school has a self-governing board that runs the facility.
The hospital is likely to apply for self-governing status.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Colonization & self-government
acknowledgement of country
annex
annexation
anti-colonial
anti-colonialism
colony
commonwealth
condominium
crown colony
declare independence
imperially
independence
Independence Day
intercolonial
land acknowledgment
recolonize
secede
secession
self-determination
self-government

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UK politics: local government & politics

Examples of self-governing

self-governing
Over the years the government has attempted to restructure or replace these self-governing institutions.
Moreover, it had been the goal of the missions to establish self-governing churches.
However, due to increased awareness on the part of both the government and self-governing bodies, a rapidly changing role can be expected.
With such a legal-political status also came the self-governing power and authority to pass and enforce bylaws and ordinances.
The top of the whole pyramid could be transformed into a self-governing chamber in parliament (the socialist counterpart of the senate in 'capitalistic' countries).
In fact, many voluntary organisations in particular fields specialised in running self-governing institutions in conjunction with public authorities in the 1950s and 1960s.
This created ingenious economically autonomous households, and self-governing people with a dominant attitude of not being a burden on others.
Included are university-based institutes, private institutes, working groups, and federal and self-governing bodies.
In particular, civil society organisations should be structured in such a way that they elevate the role of the individual and nurture self-governing capacities.
Members of a self-governing community must agree on its practices.
Although authorities aimed to run publicly funded schools as free self-governing schools, the system of funding did not change significantly during the 1990s.
Ultimately the municipalities could now denounce contracts with self-governing and private institutions if the authorities were not satisfied with the quality of the work.
The self-governing association was not concerned with "vague or theoretical liberty," but with the reg50.
Examples are expensive medical devices, for which control of diffusion is now entirely in the hands of the self-governing bodies.
Nonphysician care and medical aids are examples for coverage decisions under the control of self-governing bodies.
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