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Princeton's WordNet

  1. self-sufficient, self-sufficing, self-sustainingadjective

    able to provide for your own needs without help from others

    "a self-sufficing economic unit"

Wiktionary

  1. self-sustainingadjective

    Able to provide for one's own needs without help from others; self-sufficient.

  2. self-sustainingadjective

    Opposing or rejecting exterior influence; independent.

Wikipedia

  1. self-sustaining

    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-sustaining

    Self-sustaining refers to a system, organization, process or activity that has the ability to maintain or support itself without relying on external resources or interventions. This includes being able to continue and develop through its own capabilities, using its own resources, energy, or products.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of self-sustaining in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of self-sustaining in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of self-sustaining in a Sentence

  1. Arthur Salzer:

    The U.S. economy is becoming self-sustaining, there is growth and it's probably going to accelerate, it finally seems that we've gotten past that economic malaise that was created by the credit crisis.

  2. Jono Miller:

    The department continually looks for opportunities to expand visitor services and recreation as well as make our parks and lands more self-sustaining.

  3. Richard Linklater:

    We keep getting voted best filmmaking city for independent movies, it's a pretty self-sustaining, supportive community, it's not snarky, and it's just big enough to not feel like you're alone.

  4. Casey Dreier:

    That's kind of the grand experiment that we're actually starting to run now, no one really knows the answer to : Can we bootstrap a self-sustaining marketplace ?

  5. James Bevan:

    These findings support growing international awareness that IS forces in Iraq and Syria are very much self-sustaining — acquiring weapons and strategic goods, such as IED components, locally and with ease.


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