autarky
C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
General noun
National economic self-sufficiency and independence from trade.
Pursuing autarky, the regime banned most imports and forced factories to make everything at home.
Business noun
A condition of national economic self-sufficiency maintained without reliance on foreign trade.
The regime's pursuit of autarky left it unable to source parts once sanctions bit.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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