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SELF-SUSTAINING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does self-sustaining mean?
• SELF-SUSTAINING (adjective)
The adjective SELF-SUSTAINING has 1 sense:
1. able to provide for your own needs without help from others
Familiarity information: SELF-SUSTAINING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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)
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