self-governing

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self-governing - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  self-governing
      adj 1: (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces;
             "an autonomous judiciary"; "a sovereign state" [syn:
             autonomous, independent, self-governing,
             sovereign]

self-governing - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "self-governing":
     absolute, aristocratic, autarchic, autarkic, authoritarian,
     autocratic, automated, automatic, automatous, autonomous,
     bureaucratic, civic, civil, constitutional, cybernated, democratic,
     despotic, dictatorial, fascist, federal, federalist, federalistic,
     free-spirited, freewheeling, governmental, gubernatorial,
     heteronomous, independent, individualistic, inner-directed,
     matriarchal, matriarchic, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic,
     monocratic, neutral, nonaligned, nonpartisan, official, oligarchal,
     oligarchic, parliamentarian, parliamentary, patriarchal,
     patriarchic, pluralistic, political, popular, republican,
     self-acting, self-active, self-adjusting, self-closing,
     self-contained, self-controlled, self-cooking, self-dependent,
     self-determined, self-directed, self-directing, self-dumping,
     self-governed, self-lighting, self-operative, self-regulative,
     self-reliant, self-starting, self-subsistent, self-sufficient,
     self-supporting, self-winding, self-working, semiautomatic,
     sovereign, spontaneous, theocratic, third-force, third-world,
     totalitarian