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Definition of: self-government
(self′guv′ərn·mənt, -ər·mənt) noun
1. Self–control.
2. Government of a country or region by its own people; especially, government of a colony by the inhabitants rather than by the mother country.
—self′–gov′ern·ing, self′–gov′erned adjective
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