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Definition of Self-supporting
1. Adjective. Financially independent. "Now that my children are self-supporting"
Definition of Self-supporting
1. Adjective. Characterized by self-support ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-supporting
Literary usage of Self-supporting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1920)
"They are absolutely self-governing and self-supporting. Like the British co-operative
societies, however, they make use of considerable free service on the ..."
2. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1921)
"... for Prisoners," and more particularly to discuss the question "Can Prisons Be
Made self-supporting and Inmates Be Paid Adequate Wages at the Same Time? ..."
3. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association (1921)
"... for Prisoners," and more particularly to discuss the question "Can Prisons Be
Made self-supporting and Inmates Be Paid Adequate Wages at the Same Time ? ..."
4. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1858)
"Notes on self-supporting DISPENSARIES, with some Statistics of the Coventry ...
IN offering the Statistics of the self-supporting Dispensary at Coventry to ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The aerials of the proposed station at Buenos Aires will be supported by
self-supporting towers corresponding to the towers of the powerful station at ..."
6. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1888)
"ORGANIZATION TO AID THE ADULT BLIND TO BECOME self-supporting. BY JJ DOW,
SUPERINTENDENT OF MINNESOTA SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND. The most pressing problem in ..."
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