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self-sufficient Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 able to provide everything you need, especially food, for yourself without the help of other people:
- The programme aims to make the country self-sufficient in food production and to cut energy imports.
- They were busy with growing vegetables and all the other chores of a self-sufficient rural life.
- She's a very self-sufficient young woman.
- He had never had to make a decision in his life but now he had to be entirely self-sufficient.
1 able to provide what is necessary without the help of others:
- a self-sufficient economy/person
2 able to provide everything you need for yourself, especially food, without buying from or being helped by others:
- be self-sufficient in sth Currently, the UK is only 62% self-sufficient in beef.
- Building its own marketing organisation in the US would allow the company to become financially self-sufficient and market its own products.

Within three years, Pakistan became self-sufficient.
They recall the village as a tough but proudly self-sufficient place, with no roads, electricity or running water.
As the baby becomes more self-sufficient, she'll seek out her own sources of amusement.
We were brought up to be independent and self-sufficient.
For the most part, these groups were independent and self-sufficient.
The building was developed with 1.20m wide self-sufficient modules.
The development of a parallel market economy in recent years has given the false impression that the camps could be, or are nearly, self-sufficient.
In both cases, a self-sufficient pride is plausibly depicted as directing attention away from real accomplishments.