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Self-sufficing

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Self`-suf`fi´cing
a.1.Sufficing for one's self or for itself, without needing external aid; self-sufficient.
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Adj.1.self-sufficing - able to provide for your own needs without help from others; "a self-sufficing economic unit"
self-sufficient, self-sustaining
independent - free from external control and constraint; "an independent mind"; "a series of independent judgments"; "fiercely independent individualism"


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Suppose you were to ask me whether the body is self-sufficing or has wants, I should reply: Certainly the body has wants; for the body may be ill and require to be cured, and has therefore interests to which the art of medicine ministers; and this is the origin and intention of medicine, as you will acknowledge.
The Republic by Plato View in context
Next door to Sally's Aunt Jane, in a cosy little cottage with a wonderful little garden, lived Thomas Kitchener, a large, grave, self-sufficing young man, who, by sheer application to work, had become already, though only twenty-five, second gardener at the Hall.
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context
The state is "a community of well-being in families and aggregations of families for the sake of a perfect and self-sufficing life.
A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context
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