semiautonomy

noun

semiautonomy

noun

Etymology From semi- + autonomy.

1

The quality of being semiautonomous.

Beijing says it wants to safeguard “one country, two systems,” the principle that supposedly guarantees Hong Kong’s semiautonomy from the mainland.2020 May 22, Lewis Lau Yiu-man, “China Doesn’t Just Want to Control Hong Kong”, in The New York Times:

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