Usually means: Control over one's own life.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. self-determination: Merriam-Webster
  2. self-determination: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. self-determination: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. self-determination, self-determination: Collins English Dictionary
  5. self-determination: Vocabulary.com
  6. Self-Determination, Self-determination, self-determination: Wordnik
  7. self-determination: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. self-determination: Wiktionary
  9. self-determination: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. self-determination: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. self-determination: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. self-determination: Dictionary.com
  13. self-determination: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Self-determination: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Self-determination: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. self-determination: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. self-determination: Rhymezone
  18. Self-determination: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. self-determination: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. self-determination: FreeDictionary.org
  21. self-determination: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. self-determination: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. self-determination: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. self-determination: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (ethics, law) The ability or human right to make one's own decisions without interference from others
noun:  (politics) The political independence of a people
noun:  (international law) self-determination of peoples: the collective right to determine its own destiny in the international order, to choose its own political status and to determine its own form of economic, cultural and social development, the right to establish a state

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