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SELF-SUFFICIENT

Pronunciation (US):

• SELF-SUFFICIENT (adjective)
The adjective SELF-SUFFICIENT has 1 sense:

1. able to provide for your own needs without help from others

Familiarity information: SELF-SUFFICIENT used as an adjective is very rare.

• SELF-SUFFICIENT (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Able to provide for your own needs without help from others

Synonyms:

self-sufficient; self-sufficing; self-sustaining

Context example:

a self-sufficing economic unit

Similar:

independent (free from external control and constraint)

"Clothes maketh the man."
(English proverb)
"Mind the goats so that you will drink their milk."
(Albanian proverb)
"Call someone your lord and he'll sell you in the slave market."
(Arabic proverb)
"The vine says to the vintager: "Make me poor, and I will make you rich.""
(Corsican proverb)

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