semiautonomous
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of semiautonomous
First recorded in 1900–05; semi- + autonomous
Example Sentences
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The company is creating a digital twin of its timberlands and studying semiautonomous logging equipment like skidders.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Iraq’s northern route had been halted until this week, when Iraq and the semiautonomous region of Kurdistan reached an agreement to resume the exports through Turkey.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 20, 2026
As a semiautonomous Danish territory, Greenland is protected by NATO, which would not only marshal the U.S. military to respond to any attack but would also rally the alliance’s other 31 countries.
From Salon • Jan. 18, 2026
Licenses granted before the moratorium have opened up the possibility of a new revenue source that could help Greenland become financially independent from Denmark, which currently subsidizes the semiautonomous territory.
From Barron's • Jan. 7, 2026
A few weeks before Greenhouse, Bradbury had tried to mollify the willful physicist by creating a semiautonomous thermonuclear division at Los Alamos, giving Teller authority over 25 scientists.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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