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    self-sustenance

    noun

    • 1. the ability to continue in a healthy state without outside assistance: "the refugees had attained self-sustenance and had been contributing to the nation's economy"

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  2. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishSELF-SUSTAINING | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

    able to continue to exist without help from anyone or anything else : The wildflower garden flourished as a self-sustaining ecosystem. The football club does not have enough income to be self-sustaining. They were trying to support a selfsustaining country that could govern itself. Fewer examples. Gradually they developed a self-sustaining economy.

  3. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › self-sustainingSelf-sustaining Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

    The meaning of SELF-SUSTAINING is maintaining or able to maintain oneself or itself by independent effort. How to use self-sustaining in a sentence.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Self-sustainabilitySelf-sustainability - Wikipedia

    A system is self-sustaining (or self-sufficient) if it can maintain itself by independent effort. The system self-sustainability is: the degree at which the system can sustain itself without external support. the fraction of time in which the system is self-sustaining.

  5. dictionary.cambridge.org › us › dictionarySELF-SUSTAINING definition | Cambridge English Dictionary

    SELF-SUSTAINING meaning: 1. able to continue to exist without help from anyone or anything else : 2. able to continue to…. Learn more.

  6. en.wiktionary.org › wiki › self-sustenanceself-sustenance - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

    self - sustenance ( uncountable) ( physics, rare, fantasy, science fiction, biology) The independent sustenance of oneself, such as not requiring much oxygen to breathe or food to eat and liquids to drink like average species. Categories: English lemmas. English nouns.

  7. www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com › definition › englishself-sustaining adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation...

    able to continue in a healthy or successful state without help from anyone or anything else. The solar panel project will help local communities become self-sustaining. The goal is to establish a self-sustaining population of wild fish in the river. a self-sustaining colony/civilization/habitat.

  8. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishDefinition of 'self-sustaining' - Collins Online Dictionary

    self-sustaining. adjective. A self-sustaining process or system is able to continue by itself without anyone or anything else becoming involved. Asia's emerging economies will be on a self-sustaining cycle of growth.