Usually means: Authority to govern without interference.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. sovereignty: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sovereignty: Merriam-Webster
  3. sovereignty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sovereignty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sovereignty: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sovereignty: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sovereignty, sovereignty: Wordnik
  8. sovereignty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sovereignty: Wiktionary
  10. sovereignty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sovereignty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sovereignty: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sovereignty: Dictionary.com
  14. sovereignty: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sovereignty: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sovereignty (Italy), Sovereignty (play), Sovereignty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sovereignty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sovereignty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sovereignty: Rhymezone
  20. sovereignty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sovereignty: FreeDictionary.org
  22. sovereignty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sovereignty: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. sovereignty: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. sovereignty: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Sovereignty: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. sovereignty: Legal dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sovereignty: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. sovereignty: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sovereignty: Easton Bible

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sovereignty: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sovereignties as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (chiefly uncountable) The quality or state of being sovereign.
noun:  Of a ruler (especially a monarch): supreme authority or dominion over something.
noun:  (by extension) Of a nation or other polity: the state of being able to control resources, make laws independently, and otherwise govern itself without the coercion or concurrence of other polities.
noun:  (by extension) Of a person: the liberty to decide one's actions and thoughts.
noun:  Pre-eminent or superior excellence; also, superior ability to achieve something; mastery.
noun:  (countable) A territory under the rule of a sovereign; an independent or self-governing nation or other polity.

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