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self-supporting

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Definition of self-supporting

adjective

  • 1having the resources to be able to survive without outside assistance: the colonies must be, if nothing else, self-supporting a self-supporting sea eagle population
  • 2staying up or upright without being supported by something else:arches were originally self-supporting structures

Derivatives

self-support

noun

self-supporting in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of self-supporting in the US English dictionary