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self-supporting
adjective
- able to support or maintain oneself without the help of others
- able to stand up or hold firm without support, props, attachments, etc
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There is hope that the site will one day be self-supporting from ad sales.
We hope to make this hotel self-supporting in a few years, though it could not be accomplished in the beginning.
Strenuous effort has always been made in some clubs to make them self-supporting; they seem almost to live for that purpose.
Last March there graduated at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania one of these self-supporting young men.
There were there impregnating powers and mighty forces, a self-supporting principle beneath and energy aloft.
The tendency ever is to cultivate profitable and self-supporting fields and sound business policies.
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