autarky

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Without falling into the trap of autarky, the domestic economy must be strengthened so that local industry and agriculture can generate decent jobs and living for all the people.

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  1. noun A policy of national self-sufficiency and nonreliance on imports or economic aid.
  2. noun A self-sufficient region or country.

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  1. Greek autarkeia, self-sufficiency, from autarkēs, self-sufficient : auto-, auto- + arkein, to suffice.
 

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