Autarky

Quick meaning: Autarky is a noun meaning (uncountable) A personal condition or state of self-reliance; independence.

Meaning

(uncountable) A personal condition or state of self-reliance; independence.

More Meanings

1. (A policy of) national economic self-sufficiency, aimed at ending reliance on foreign imports to sustain a domestic economy.
2. A self-sufficient country or region which is not dependent on international trade to function economically.

Example Sentences

A general autarky in culture simply will not work: the hope of perpetuating the culture of any country lies in communication with others.

But a good man ſhall be ſatisfied from himſelf] For he hath a ſpring vvithin his ovvn breaſt, he needs not ſharke abroad: he hath an autarkie, a ſelf-ſufficiency, 1 Tim[othy] 6.6.

[T]hus far the Author is a profeſſed Leveller in his practick judgement, paſt and preſent; a very Lazarus, that gathereth little; yet by Some other benediction, of Autarkie and Self-ſufficiency, a very Dives, He hath no lack.

Selfe-ſufficiencie is the end.] To haue all things, and to vvant or deſire nothing, is Selfe-ſufficiencie, Ariſtot: Polit. Lib. 7. Cap. 5. This autarchie or ſelfe-ſufficiencie, is the end and the good contained in the forme of a Citie, and conſequently is the end of all other ſocieties.

Word Forms

• autarkies
• autarchie
• autarchy

Synonyms for autarky

Depending on context, synonyms include autarchy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include autarchy, self-sufficiency, autarchie, independency, nonreliance, unreliance.

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