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self-support

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self-sup·port (slfs-pôrt, -prt)
n.
The act of or capacity for supporting oneself, especially financially, without the help of others.
self-sup·ported, self-sup·porting adj.


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I have frequently found it necessary to reflect, for my own self-support, that I really had not done anything to bring myself into the Newgate Calendar, but only wanted to effect a great saving and a great improvement.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
He loses, in an extent proportioned to the weakness or force of his original nature, the capability of self-support.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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