Usually means: Autonomy in managing one's affairs.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word self-government:

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

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. self-government: Legal dictionary

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

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▸ noun:  The governance of a region by its own populace; autonomy.
▸ noun:  (dated) Personal self-control.

Similar:
self-determination, self-rule, autarchy, autonomist, regionalism, souverainism, Independentism, sovereigntism, sovereignism, autarky, more...

Types:
direct democracy, absolute monarchy, theocracy, oligarchy, dictatorship, fascism, more...

Phrases:
Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League, National Self-Government of Germans in Hungary, Provisional Institutions of Self-Government, Promotion of Bantu Self-government Act, 1959, more...

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Similar:
self-determination, self-rule, autarchy, autonomist, regionalism, souverainism, Independentism, sovereigntism, sovereignism, autarky, more...

Types:
direct democracy, absolute monarchy, theocracy, oligarchy, dictatorship, fascism, more...

Phrases:
Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League, National Self-Government of Germans in Hungary, Provisional Institutions of Self-Government, Promotion of Bantu Self-government Act, 1959, more...



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