adjective
definition
Partially, but not fully, autonomous.
example
Hong Kong is a semiautonomous region of China.
Examples of semiautonomous in a Sentence
Moreover, the new concept of efficient government required the interference of the central government in the innumerable semiautonomous communities.
Hut, 38, was arrested in December while working as an undercover agent in the semiautonomous, Kurdish-controlled area of northern Iraq.
In 1864 he divided Venezuela into twenty states and formed them into a Federal republic. The twenty parties whose struggles had caused so much strife and bloodshed were the Unionists, who desired a centralized government, and the Federalists, who preferred a federation of semiautonomous provinces.