self-supporting
3
3.9
- adjective
- /ˌsɛlf səˈpɔrtɪŋ/
:
autosuficiente
- She started her own business and became self-supporting within a year.
- become self-supporting
- partially self-supporting
- self-supporting students
I was self supporting, running my own business, but I wasn't happy.
- I was self supporting, running my own business, but I wasn't happy.
- Charles Murray's book First Book discusses this, was to get people out of poverty, to make people self supporting.
- So one goal is that space becomes space itself becomes a self supporting commodity, if you will.
Examples
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Mrs. Nakaya found a job in a home for the elderly in Yamaguchi, and she began a self-supporting life.
Academic text (1990) -
After the grant period, the New Horizons Band will continue as a self-supporting offering of Eastman's Community Education Division.
Academic text (1992) -
I was self supporting, running my own business, but I wasn't happy.
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I was successful, I was self supporting, running my own business, but I wasn't happy.
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In a word, it's a self-supporting economy.
Fiction book (1996) -
Many universities offer self-supporting English language programs throughout the U.S. and in other parts of the world.
Academic text (1996) -
Neither the employment programs nor the work requirements for mothers proved effective in moving people into self-supporting jobs.
Academic text (1995) -
I debated between going to beauty school and college because I knew I wanted to be self-supporting.
Academic text (1995) -
The network has been funded for a two-year period, after which it is expected to be self-supporting.
Academic text (1995) -
Fee increases for students without bachelor's degrees were particularly difficult for self-supporting students, many of whom were low-income and minority students.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
33
3.9
Can live without help from other people
20
4.3
Complete and independent without needing anything else to work
13
4.5
Able to act and decide without help from others
12
4.2
Able to live and support yourself without help from others
10
5.7
Able to keep working without help from others
2
3.9
Without help from anyone else
1
5.3
Able to continue to work or live without help from others
Able to provide for yourself without help from others
Antonyms
How Independent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Self-supporting is made from self ('oneself') and support ('to hold up' or 'help'). So it means 'holding yourself up', which is why a self-supporting person can pay their own bills and live without help from others.