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autarky
noun
[ ˈɔːtɑːki ]
• economic independence or self-sufficiency.
• "rural community autarchy is a Utopian dream"
Origin:
early 17th century: from Greek autarkeia, from autarkēs ‘self-sufficiency’, from autos ‘self’ + arkein ‘suffice’.