Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Supporting or maintaining one's self or itself without extraneous help: as the institution is now self-supporting.
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- adjective Characterized by
self-support
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- adjective financially independent
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Examples
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The assumption -- that NAFTA would create a self-supporting manufacturing base in Mexico, while Canada and the U.S. created higher wage "new industry" jobs was naive.
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Of the 30 public schools where the percentage of athletics revenue coming from allocated sources rose the most from 2005 to 2008, about half are from schools in the power conferences, often assumed to be self-supporting.
Amid funding crisis, college athletics soak up subsidies, fees 2010
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But I only ended up doing the wandering, because the discussions were completely self-supporting and driven.
Anatomy of a successful class « This is what a computer scientist looks like 2009
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The assumption -- that NAFTA would create a self-supporting manufacturing base in Mexico, while Canada and the U.S. created higher wage "new industry" jobs was naive.
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But I only ended up doing the wandering, because the discussions were completely self-supporting and driven.
2009 October 07 « This is what a computer scientist looks like 2009
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Each light fixture is made from a single sheet of paper cut, folded and/or bent to create a graceful, self-supporting luminescent sculpture.
Alla Kazovsky: Product as Sculpture Alla Kazovsky 2011
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Each light fixture is made from a single sheet of paper cut, folded and/or bent to create a graceful, self-supporting luminescent sculpture.
Alla Kazovsky: Product as Sculpture Alla Kazovsky 2011
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Each light fixture is made from a single sheet of paper cut, folded and/or bent to create a graceful, self-supporting luminescent sculpture.
Alla Kazovsky: Product as Sculpture Alla Kazovsky 2011
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Each light fixture is made from a single sheet of paper cut, folded and/or bent to create a graceful, self-supporting luminescent sculpture.
Alla Kazovsky: Product as Sculpture Alla Kazovsky 2011
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But I only ended up doing the wandering, because the discussions were completely self-supporting and driven.
2009 October « This is what a computer scientist looks like 2009
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