autonomy
B1CEFR level
25/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
A patient's right to make their own decisions about their care, free from control by others.
Respecting your autonomy means the final choice about surgery rests entirely with you.
Law noun
The self-standing character of the Union legal order, independent of both national and international law.
The Court invoked the autonomy of Union law to reject the arbitration clause.
Business noun
The freedom to act and decide independently.
Engineers were given full autonomy over the roadmap.
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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