autarky

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek αὐτᾰ́ρκειᾰ (autắrkeiă, “independence, self-sufficiency, autarky; satisfaction with one’s resources, contentment”) + English -y (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition, quality, or state). Αὐτᾰ́ρκειᾰ (Autắrkeiă) is derived from αὐτάρκης (autárkēs, “self-sufficient; content with what one has”) + -ειᾰ (-eiă, suffix forming feminine nouns); while αὐτάρκης (autárkēs) is from αὐτο- (auto-, prefix meaning ‘self’) + ᾰ̓ρκέω (ărkéō, “to be enough for, satisfy, suffice; (passive) to be satisfied with”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk- (“to guard, protect; to hold; to lock”)) + -ης (-ēs, suffix forming third-declension adjectives). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɔːtəki/, /-tɑː-/ (General American) enPR: ôʹtär'kē, IPA(key): /ˈɔˌtɑɹki/ Homophone: autarchy Hyphenation: aut‧arky === Noun === autarky (countable and uncountable, plural autarkies) (uncountable) A personal condition or state of self-reliance; independence. [from late 16th c.] (economics, politics, specifically) (uncountable) (A policy of) national economic self-sufficiency, aimed at ending reliance on foreign imports to sustain a domestic economy. (countable) A self-sufficient country or region which is not dependent on international trade to function economically. ==== Usage notes ==== Although autarky is also spelled autarchy, it is not to be confused with autarchy (“absolute power”). ==== Alternative forms ==== autarchie (obsolete) autarchy (see usage notes) ==== Derived terms ==== autarkic autarkical autarkically autarkist ==== Related terms ==== autarchy ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “autarchy2, n.”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 386, column 1. William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “autarchy2, n.”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volume I, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 386, column 1. “autarky, n.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, reproduced from Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN. “autarky”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.