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self-sustaining

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Able to sustain oneself or itself independently.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Self-supporting.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Able to provide for one's own needs without help from others; self-sufficient.
  • adjective Opposing or rejecting exterior influence; independent.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective able to provide for your own needs without help from others

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Examples

  • Republicans, on the other hand, believe long-term self-sustaining jobs are created in the private sector—that government cannot tax, spend and borrow our nation to prosperity.

    A 2012 Republican Strategy for Congress Ron Johnson 2012

  • Giving airtime to these kinds of people is part of how Fox reinforces the drumbeat of stereotypes that permeates the rest of its coverage, and how it ensures its viewers subscribe to what Greg referred to as the "self-sustaining, self-perpetuating alternate reality" where America is on the verge of establishing sharia law and where an anti-white hate group has influence in the White House.

    Fox News's parade of buffoons 2011

  • Tuesday morning's economic data south of the border add to the growing sense that the U.S. is trending in the right direction, while serving as a reminder that the American recovery is a long way from what economists call "self-sustaining."

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed JEREMY TOROBIN 2012

  • Tuesday morning's economic data south of the border add to the growing sense that the U.S. is trending in the right direction, while serving as a reminder that the American recovery is a long way from what economists call "self-sustaining."

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed JEREMY TOROBIN 2012

  • In the late 1960s, hundreds of hippies left the cities and suburbs to establish self-sustaining communes.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • As Singh later recalled, “the predominant mood of the times at that time was that in poor countries you needed strong government intervention to move the economy onto a path of self-sustaining growth.”

    Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

  • And, as the Kagans point out, this confidence must come from self-sustaining institutions, one of which is a functioning judiciary which promotes the rule of law long after the battle has been won.

    Momentum, Progress and Afghanistan 2011

  • By establishing a Green Bank to provide adequate start-up capital and rebates for the cost of expanding a clean energy company, we can dramatically accelerate the growth a self-sustaining and highly-profitable green economy.

    Janice Hahn: The Economy May Be Growing Once Again, But It Certainly Isn't Growing Fast Enough Janice Hahn 2011

  • For us, it was a self-contained, nearly self-sustaining, community surrounded by some of the richest hunting lands known in the Great Northwest.

    The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • The point of reading Kafka's fiction is not, it seems to me, to arrive at a conclusion that the world we live in is absurd, or frightening, or grotesque, but that the world Kafka has created is self-sustaining and entirely logical.

    Translated Texts 2010

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