Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being self-sufficient.
- noun An overweening opinion of one's own endowments or worth; excessive confidence in one's own competence or sufficiency.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being self-sufficient.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The condition of being
self-sufficient .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun personal independence
Etymologies
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Examples
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If you dismiss his offers in the name of self-sufficiency, you reject him.
THE SURRENDERED SINGLE ALSO BY LAURA DOYLE 2002
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Late last year, Mr. Chen wrote an essay questioning whether the notion of self-sufficiency needed to be revisited in the light of current agricultural economics.
China Sees Food Need Rising Chuin-Wei Yap 2011
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In economic work, we must abandon once and for all the ideal of self-sufficiency, which is a characteristic of the natural economy.
Strategic Management in Developing Countries Case Studies James E. Austin 2000
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In economic work, we must abandon once and for all the ideal of self-sufficiency, which is a characteristic of the natural economy.
Strategic Management in Developing Countries Case Studies James E. Austin 2000
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On the last leg of the trip, seven students remained in what NOLS spokesperson Bruce Palmer describes as a "self-sufficiency field base experience."
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Likewise, the Nazis subsidized the construction of homes in rural areas in order to encourage self-sufficiency and to alleviate overcrowding in the cities.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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"We believe severe overcapacity and low self-sufficiency in iron-ore and coking coal could result in Chinese steelmakers facing a prolonged period of close to trough-cycle margins," brokerage Goldman Sachs said in a note on Tuesday after downgrading Angang Steel to a Sell from Neutral.
China Steel Makers' Shares Tumble Joanne Chiu 2012
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Labels: food self-sufficiency, gardening, seed starter comments:
Impressed by a Possible Future Olga Bonfiglio 2010
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Traditionally, the agentic style has been more valued and represents "masculine" traits, like ambition, confidence and self-sufficiency.
Andrea Learned: In 2011, Sustainability Will Force the De-Gendering of Business Leadership Andrea Learned 2011
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Oma's mayor, Mitsuharu Kanazawa, who was in Tokyo recently to lobby for resuming work on the plant, dismissed the suggestion that his town is gambling its safety and self-sufficiency for a handout from Tokyo.
A Nuclear Japan's Biggest Fans: Mayors Mari Iwata 2011
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