Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Able to provide for oneself without the help of others; independent.
- adjective Having undue confidence; smug.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of effecting all one's own ends or fulfilling all one's own desires without the aid of others.
- Having undue confidence in one's own strength, ability, or endowments; haughty; overbearing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Sufficient for one's self without external aid or coöperation.
- adjective Having an overweening confidence in one's own abilities or worth; hence, haughty; overbearing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to provide for oneself
independently of others.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective able to provide for your own needs without help from others
Etymologies
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Examples
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She had not worked in at least 20 years, was therefore, probably not self-sufficient financially and due to her pre-existing condition was not qualified to seek out private coverage after the COBRA plan ran out.
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Republicans portray themselves as strong, self-sufficient individualists with little need for government, and certainly no need for government welfare.
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According to a posthumous biography "The Lee Papers," Mr. Lee argued that newspapers should be financially self-sufficient, so that they "could look any man or corporation or institution in the face and tell that man or corporation or institution to go to hell."
For Vultures, Slim Pickings Matt Wirz 2011
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She had not worked in at least 20 years, was therefore, probably not self-sufficient financially and due to her pre-existing condition was not qualified to seek out private coverage after the COBRA plan ran out.
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In reality, it is not only possible, but affordable to build housing and transportation that is self-sufficient.
Think Progress » After warmest January in history, Vancouver airlifts in snow for Winter Olympics. 2010
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And given its high costs and strategic use, we were trying to become self-sufficient for some years, says a senior DRDO official.
The T-7 2011
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The paragraph holds luminously good still for either Bobby – Jones or Moore:What we talk about here is not the hero as sportsman, but that something which a civilised community hungered for and found: the best performer in the world who was also hero as human being, the gentle, wholly self-sufficient male.
My dream job as Bobby Moore's minder for a fortnight | Frank Keating 2011
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She worked for Women for Women International, an aid group that helps women in war zones become self-sufficient.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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And given its high costs and strategic use, we were trying to become self-sufficient for some years, says a senior DRDO official.
The T-7 2011
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The object is not for the children to become self-sufficient, but to be reliant on the ultimate ‘authority’ and sanction of ‘God’, in lieu of which they are obliged to submit to these self-appointed representatives of ‘God’.
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