What does self-sufficiency mean?

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self-suf·fi·cien·cy

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. autonomy, self-direction, self-reliance, self-sufficiencynoun

    personal independence

Wiktionary

  1. self-sufficiencynoun

    the condition of being self-sufficient

  2. Etymology: self- + sufficiency

Wikipedia

  1. self-sufficiency

    Self-sustainability and self-sufficiency are overlapping states of being in which a person or an organization needs little or no help from, or interaction with, others. Self-sufficiency entails the self being enough (to fulfill needs), and a self-sustaining entity can maintain self-sufficiency indefinitely. These states represent types of personal or collective autonomy. A self-sufficient economy is one that requires little or no trade with the outside world and is called an autarky.

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  1. self-sufficiency

    Self-sufficiency is the quality or state of being able to provide for oneself without assistance from others. This can include providing for one's basic necessities such as food, shelter, and clothing, as well as emotional and intellectual needs. It's often associated with personal independence, autonomy, and resilience.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Self-sufficiencynoun

    the quality or state of being self-sufficient

Wikidata

  1. Self-sufficiency

    Self-sufficiency is the state of not requiring any aid, support, or interaction, for survival; it is therefore a type of personal or collective autonomy. On a national scale, a totally self-sufficient economy that does not trade with the outside world is called an autarky. The term self-sufficiency is usually applied to varieties of sustainable living in which nothing is consumed outside of what is produced by the self-sufficient individuals. Examples of attempts at self-sufficiency in North America include simple living, homesteading, off-the-grid, survivalism, DIY ethic and the back-to-the-land movement. Practices that enable or aid self-sufficiency include autonomous building, permaculture, sustainable agriculture, and renewable energy. The term is also applied to limited forms of self-sufficiency, for example growing one's own food or becoming economically independent of state subsidies. The entire population of the world was, at one time, self-sufficient. They made their own clothing, tools, weapons, boats, huts, and food. They used gathering, hunting, herding and farming to find/hunt/grow their own food. As the human population of the world grew, the wild food supply dwindled. People began to rely on herding and farming more; relying less upon gathering and hunting. In modern times, automated food production on farms makes food. The vast populations now depend on a fewer farmers to make their food for them. Many in developed nations now depend on job salaries to buy food, clothes, and shelter, rather than making these things from raw materials found in the environment. But in a few places in the world, native societies continue to be self-sufficient, never having given up their traditional ways of food gathering and food making. Because these native peoples have no jobs and make no salaries, they are often listed as unemployed.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of self-sufficiency in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of self-sufficiency in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of self-sufficiency in a Sentence

  1. Ken Cuccinelli:

    The principle driving it is an old American value and that's self-sufficiency.

  2. Joanna Szostek:

    China's market is much larger, which probably makes self-sufficiency easier for them, china's internet has been isolated from the very early days ; for Russians, the new isolation will be experienced as more of a loss and disruption.

  3. Yang Shuangquan:

    In offshore oil drilling we'd like to cut the reliance on imports by improving the self-sufficiency, (The plan) draws up... major development projects for the oil industries in exploiting natural gas, shale gas and offshore oil. The latter two will remain as China's strategic moves to ensure energy supply.

  4. Krijn Poppe:

    You see in a lot of countries there is interest in local production. In Russia it's influenced by a self-sufficiency policy, with Saudi Arabia it's driven by food security.

  5. Robert D. Richardson:

    Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This is not a paradox, for it is only the strong individual who can frankly concede the sometimes surprising extent of his own dependence.


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