self-determination

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The ability or human right to make one's own decisions without interference from others uncountable
  2. The political independence of a people uncountable
    — The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has categorically ruled out any new negotiations saying the future of the Falklands can only be decided by the islanders themselves in accordance with the UN principle of self-determination.
  3. self-determination of peoples: the collective right to determine its own destiny in the international order, to choose its own political status and to determine its own form of economic, cultural and social development, the right to establish a state uncountable

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English determination
English self-determination
From self- + determination.
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