Usually means: Local self-government within state.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. home rule: Merriam-Webster
  2. home rule: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. home rule: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. home rule: Collins English Dictionary
  5. home rule: Vocabulary.com
  6. Home-Rule, home-rule, home rule: Wordnik
  7. home rule: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. home rule: Wiktionary
  9. home rule: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. home rule: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. home rule: Dictionary.com
  12. Home Rule, Home rule: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. home rule: Rhymezone
  14. home rule: FreeDictionary.org
  15. home rule: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. home rule: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. home rule: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. home rule: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. home rule: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
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  5. Home-rule, home rule: Legal dictionary
  6. home rule: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Home-rule, home rule: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. home rule: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Home Rule)

noun:  The rule or government of an appendant or dependent country, as to some or all local and internal legislation, by means of a governing power vested in the people within the country itself, in contradistinction to a government established by the dominant country.
noun:  (historical, especially) Self-government of the island of Ireland.
noun:  Ellipsis of home rule class. [(US, often used attributively) One of two classes of cities in the U.S. state of Kentucky, with cities under this class practicing home rule.]
noun:  Alternative form of home rule [The rule or government of an appendant or dependent country, as to some or all local and internal legislation, by means of a governing power vested in the people within the country itself, in contradistinction to a government established by the dominant country.]

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