Vocabulary
Autonomous
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
(of a country or region) having the freedom to govern itself or control its own affairs.
Urdu meaning
خودمختار، نامحکوم
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- We are moving fast, past the age of data, deep into the age of autonomous decisions.
- By age five, the language window opens sufficiently for children to have autonomous access to the world beyond grandmother`s stories fortunate ones can read on their own, most others can hear via electronic devices.
- The top 50 or so universities, which have some measure of quality, should be allowed to become more autonomous and efficient without much meddling.
- We can either patch a broken model and watch its decline or build something better bold, autonomous and excellence-driven.
- Institutionally, autonomous bodies stand tamed by the state and serve its aims openly while the media faces many curbs on its freedom.
Synonyms
independent, self-governing, sovereign,self-determining, free, self-ruling, autarchic
Antonyms
dependent, subservient, subject
Curator example
“the federation included seventeen autonomous republics”
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