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Definition of Self-sufficing

1. Adjective. Able to provide for your own needs without help from others. "A self-sufficing economic unit"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-sufficing

Literary usage of Self-sufficing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles of Economics: With Special Reference to American Conditions by Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman (1905)
"self-sufficing or Isolated Economy By this term is meant a form of ... This self-sufficing economy assumes many different aspects in the course of history. ..."

2. Principles of Economics by Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman (1909)
"self-sufficing or Isolated Economy. By this term is meant a form of ... This self-sufficing economy assumes many different aspects in the course of history. ..."

3. Principles of Economics: With Special Reference to American Conditions by Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman (1914)
"This self-sufficing economy assumes many different aspects in the course of history. The economic unit may be either a family or a larger group. ..."

4. The Growth of English Industry and Commerce by William Cunningham (1890)
"Most of these are articles of very general demand; while our realm was so self-sufficing that England did not depend on Germany for any of the necessaries ..."

5. Agricultural Economics: A Selection of Materials in which Economic by Edwin Griswold Nourse (1916)
"THE self-sufficing CHARACTER OF THE MANOR' BY WJ ASHLEY AND RE PROTHERO In the Middle Ages agriculture was a self-supporting industry rather than a ..."

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