semiautonomous

American  

[sem-ee-aw-ton-uh-muhs, sem-ahy-] / ˌsɛm i ɔˈtɒn ə məs, ˌsɛm aɪ- /

adjective

1. partially self-governing, especially with reference to internal affairs.

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Etymology

Origin of semiautonomous

First recorded in 1900–05; semi- + autonomous

Example Sentences

What began as a way to autocomplete code quickly evolved into semiautonomous AI bots, or “agents,” that can work for hours on end with little human oversight.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

“The war that is currently under way has little to do with our usual struggle, but the situation that has arisen may provide an opportunity for the Kurdish forces to take action,” said Kamal Karimi, a member of the Central Committee of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan, or KDPI, the leading Iranian Kurdish militant group, primarily based in Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region.

From The Wall Street Journal

He then linked his attempts to gain the semiautonomous Danish territory of Greenland to his failure to clinch the prize, telling the Norwegian prime minister that he no longer needed to think “purely of peace.”

From The Wall Street Journal

But despite a fragile armistice since Jan. 18, the Kurdish-led group is now backed into two small pockets of northeastern Syria and preparing for another possible offensive as Sharaa attempts to cement his grip on power and fold the semiautonomous group into his government.

From The Wall Street Journal