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home rule

The principle or practice of self-government in the internal affairs of a dependent country or other political unit.

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home rule

1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) self-government, esp in domestic affairs

2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) government US the partial autonomy of cities and (in some states) counties, under which they manage their own affairs, with their own charters, etc, within the limits set by the state constitution and laws

3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the partial autonomy sometimes granted to a national minority or a colony

Home Rule

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) self-government for Ireland: the goal of the Irish Nationalists from about 1870 to 1920

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home′ rule′

self-government in local matters by a city, province, state, colony, or the like.

[1855–60]

Home Rule

Irish agitation for complete self-government from the 1770s to 1920s.

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Noun

home rule - self-government in local matters by a city or county that is part of a national government

self-determination, self-government, self-rule - government of a political unit by its own people

Translations

حُكُم مَحَلّي

samospráva

hjemmestyreselvstyre

Selbstregierung

autonomie

heimastjórn; sjálfstjórn

hjemmestyre

öz yönetimözel idare

地方自治

home rule

n → autogoverno, autonomia

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home

(həum) noun

1. the house, town, country etc where a person etc usually lives. I work in London but my home is in Bournemouth; When I retire, I'll make my home in Bournemouth; Africa is the home of the lion; We'll have to find a home for the kitten.

2. the place from which a person, thing etc comes originally. America is the home of jazz.

3. a place where children without parents, old people, people who are ill etc live and are looked after. an old folk's home; a nursing home.

4. a place where people stay while they are working. a nurses' home.

5. a house. Crumpy Construction build fine homes for fine people; He invited me round to his home.

adjective

1. of a person's home or family. home comforts.

2. of the country etc where a person lives. home produce.

3. (in football) playing or played on a team's own ground. the home team; a home game.

adverb

1. to a person's home. I'm going home now; Hallo – I'm home!

2. completely; to the place, position etc a thing is intended to be. He drove the nail home; Few of his punches went home; These photographs of the war brought home to me the suffering of the soldiers.

ˈhomeless noun plural, adjective

(people) without a place to live in. This charity was set up to help the homeless; homeless people.

ˈhomely adjective

1. simple but pleasant. homely food.

2. making a person feel he is at home. a homely atmosphere.

3. (American) (of a person) not attractive; ugly.

ˈhomeliness noun

ˈhoming adjective

1. (of pigeons etc) which (can) fly home when set free a long way from home.

2. able to take a missile etc to its target. These torpedoes have homing devices in their noses.

ˈhome-coming noun

1. the return home of a person (who has been away for some time). We had a party to celebrate his home-coming.

2. (American) an annual event held by a college, a university or high school for former students.

ˌhome-ˈgrown adjective

grown in one's own garden or in one's own country. These tomatoes are home-grown.

ˈhomeland noun

a person's native land. Immigrants often weep for their homeland.

ˌhome-ˈmade adjective

made by a person at home; not professionally made. home-made jam; home-made furniture.

home rule

the government of a country or part of a country by its own citizens.

ˈhomesick adjective

missing one's home. When the boy first went to boarding-school he was very homesick.

ˈhomesickness noun

ˈhomestead (-sted) noun

a house, especially a farm, with the land and other buildings (eg barns) which belong to it, especially in the United States, Australia etc.

home truth

a plain statement of something which is unpleasant but true (about a person, his behaviour etc) said directly to the person. It's time someone told him a few home truths.

ˈhomeward adjective

going home. his homeward journey.

ˈhomeward(s) adverb

towards home. his journey homeward; He journeyed homewards.

ˈhomework noun

work or study done at home, especially by a school pupil. Finish your homework!

at home

1. in one's home. I'm afraid he's not at home.

2. (in football etc) in one's own ground. The team is playing at home today.

be/feel at home

to feel as relaxed as one does in one's own home or in a place or situation one knows well. I always feel at home in France; He's quite at home with cows – he used to live on a farm.

home in on

to move towards (a target etc). The missile is designed to home in on aircraft.

leave home

1. to leave one's house. I usually leave home at 7.30 a.m.

2. to leave one's home to go and live somewhere else. He left home at the age of fifteen to get a job in Australia.

make oneself at home

to make oneself as comfortable and relaxed as one would at home. Make yourself at home!

nothing to write home about

not very good. The concert was nothing to write home about.

References in classic literature ?

I remember one ardent Gladstonian who, as a general election drew near, was in sore straits indeed, for he disbelieved in Home Rule, and yet how could he vote against 'Gladstone's man'?

It was all such plain-sailing for him, she pointed out; he did not like this Home Rule, and therefore he must vote against it.

'This is a watery Sabbath to you, I'm thinking,' she said sympathetically, but without dropping her wires - for Home Rule or no Home Rule that stocking-foot must be turned before twelve o'clock.

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Gladstone and Home Rule. They realised that he was a Liberal.

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Besides, constitutionally speaking, three ministries will agree better than seven; and, in the restricted number there is less chance for mistaken choice; moreover, it might be that the kingdom would some day escape from those perpetual ministerial oscillations which interfered with all plans of foreign policy and prevented all ameliorations of home rule. In Austria, where many diverse united nations present so many conflicting interests to be conciliated and carried forward under one crown, two statesmen alone bear the burden of public affairs and are not overwhelmed by it.

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"I'd be willing to revisit this if and when we hit the home rule of 25,000, but it may not be for four or five years," Kolodziej said.

Why S. Elgin decided not to allow backyard chickens

In our second empirical exercise, we exploit a feature of Illinois state law that automatically assigns home rule status to towns that surpass a population level of 25,000.

Rules versus Home Rule Local Government Responses to Negative Revenue Shocks

Townend's study focuses on the period from the mid-1870s to the introduction of the first Home Rule Bill in 1886, a period which witnessed the development of a vibrant and unified Irish national movement under the leadership of Charles S.

The Imperial Arrangement

circumstances sparked the Home Rule movement at the turn of the

Have cities abandoned home rule?

This led some people to decide that home rule was never going to happen, so they began fighting for full independence.

We can all learn lessons from history

Home rule in a federal Britain is a cause that has long been championed by the Liberal Democrats.

Scottish Labour leader gets 'last chance'

Brit Scots want us to "believe in Britain" because English home rule or the break-up of the UK will finish Scotland's main source of funding - the English taxpayer.