The process of making something, someone or a system autonomous.

simple past tense and past participle of autonomize

(transitive) To make autonomous.

plural of autonomization

Alternative form of autonomic

The quality of being autonomic.

One of the administrative divisions of the former Soviet Union created for certain “smaller” nations and characterized by following features: they were given an autonomy within a union republic or, in the RSFSR, within a krai; had a status lower than an autonomous republic; had a different titular nation from that of their union republic/krai. Abbreviated as AO.

plural of autonomous oblast

Alternative spelling of semiautonomous

Any of the seventeen self-governing first-level political subdivisions of Spain.