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Definition of Self-sufficient
1. Adjective. Able to provide for your own needs without help from others. "A self-sufficing economic unit"
Similar to: Independent
Derivative terms: Self-sufficiency
Definition of Self-sufficient
1. Adjective. Able to provide for oneself independently of others. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-sufficient
Literary usage of Self-sufficient
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Concentration and Control: A Solution of the Trust Problem in the United States by Charles Richard Van Hise (1912)
"... THE self-sufficient COMMUNITY The farmer in the sparsely settled districts of
the Middle West was largely self-sufficient ..."
2. Concentration and Control: A Solution of the Trust Problem in the United States by Charles Richard Van Hise (1912)
"Vfi-lU THE self-sufficient COMMUNITY The farmer in the sparsely settled districts
of the Middle West was largely self-sufficient. ..."
3. A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737: By by William Stephens (1906)
"... self-sufficient Conduct, cloathed with Power, i"39. is capable of creating in
the Publick. ... selfsufficient ..."
4. Negro Migration During the War by Emmett Jay Scott (1920)
"CHAPTER V The Call of the Self-Sufficient North A surviving custom of servitude
has consigned the mass of negroes to the lower pursuits of labor. ..."
5. The Principles of Ethics by Borden Parker Bowne (1892)
"To give the discussion any meaning the question must be put in the following
form: Is ethics a self- sufficient science based solely on our moral insight, ..."
6. Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors by Elbert Hubbard (1901)
"And it is this fear- BACH less, self-reliant and self-sufficient quality that
marks the work of every exceptional man in every line of art. ..."
7. The Early Diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778: With a Selection from Her by Fanny Burney (1889)
"How much do I prefer for acquaintance the well-bred and obliging Miss Davies to
the self- sufficient and imperious Bastardini, though I doubt not the ..."
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