Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Able to provide for oneself without the help of others; independent.
- adjective Having undue confidence; smug.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of effecting all one's own ends or fulfilling all one's own desires without the aid of others.
- Having undue confidence in one's own strength, ability, or endowments; haughty; overbearing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Sufficient for one's self without external aid or coöperation.
- adjective Having an overweening confidence in one's own abilities or worth; hence, haughty; overbearing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to provide for oneself
independently of others.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective able to provide for your own needs without help from others
Etymologies
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Examples
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She had not worked in at least 20 years, was therefore, probably not self-sufficient financially and due to her pre-existing condition was not qualified to seek out private coverage after the COBRA plan ran out.
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Republicans portray themselves as strong, self-sufficient individualists with little need for government, and certainly no need for government welfare.
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According to a posthumous biography "The Lee Papers," Mr. Lee argued that newspapers should be financially self-sufficient, so that they "could look any man or corporation or institution in the face and tell that man or corporation or institution to go to hell."
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She had not worked in at least 20 years, was therefore, probably not self-sufficient financially and due to her pre-existing condition was not qualified to seek out private coverage after the COBRA plan ran out.
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In reality, it is not only possible, but affordable to build housing and transportation that is self-sufficient.
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And given its high costs and strategic use, we were trying to become self-sufficient for some years, says a senior DRDO official.
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The paragraph holds luminously good still for either Bobby – Jones or Moore:What we talk about here is not the hero as sportsman, but that something which a civilised community hungered for and found: the best performer in the world who was also hero as human being, the gentle, wholly self-sufficient male.
My dream job as Bobby Moore's minder for a fortnight | Frank Keating
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She worked for Women for Women International, an aid group that helps women in war zones become self-sufficient.
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And given its high costs and strategic use, we were trying to become self-sufficient for some years, says a senior DRDO official.
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The object is not for the children to become self-sufficient, but to be reliant on the ultimate ‘authority’ and sanction of ‘God’, in lieu of which they are obliged to submit to these self-appointed representatives of ‘God’.
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