self-sufficient
Government policy is to reduce dependence on food imports and to attain greater self-sufficiency in agriculture.
Total self-sufficiency from a wind turbine is virtually impossible.
The social enterprise achieves financial self-sufficiency through the sales of its products and services.
His children had to learn self-sufficiency in his absence.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unaided and working alone
fair
fend for yourself
go it aloneidiom
high and dry
independent
independently
self-help
self-reliant
self-sufficient
self-taught
single-handed
single-handedly
stand
stand-alone
unassisted
under your own steamidiom
unforced
unguided
unserved
yourself

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self-sufficiency | Business English

self-sufficiency
noun[ U ]
 FINANCE, COMMERCEukus
the fact of being able to provide everything you need for yourself, especially food, without buying from or being helped by others:
These programs are aimed at moving developing nations toward economic self-sufficiency.

Examples of self-sufficiency

self-sufficiency
The paradigm of staple food self-sufficiency that has been the cornerstone of agricultural policy in most developing countries becomes increasingly obsolete with economic growth.
These results can shed light on the issue of national self-sufficiency and international sharing of resources (donors).
The mission school included a programme of economic self-sufficiency through the introduction of domestic reindeer husbandry.
These findings indicate that a substantial part of the old guard follow the organic ideals and traditions of mixed farming and farm household self-sufficiency.
Farmers therefore preferred to abandon this speciality and use the available land for food crops in order to ensure food self-sufficiency.
Disrupted parenting is the common element, making a contribution to both impaired self-sufficiency and to antisocial behavior.
It can, after all, be assumed that everyone agrees that the lack of self-sufficiency or lack of initiative are not necessarily self-chosen or self-produced.
Also, during this time marketing of local maize remained feeble because production was not great enough for self-sufficiency.
Another insight offered by a feminist approach to this topic is an understanding of the devaluing of social connection in favour of self-sufficiency.
The waning notion of literature's self-sufficiency is simultaneously threatened and salvaged.
Opponents of medical charities bemoaned the negative effect of free care on the independence, dignity, and self-sufficiency of the poor.
The disqualifying attributes of "unsound mind" and "pauper" categorized individuals with reference to mental competency and economic self-sufficiency.
Accordingly, the relation of physics to mathematics does not impugn the self-sufficiency of the latter's conceptual system.
Although an assertive approach was taken in engaging and maintaining contact with patients, the emphasis was on encouraging autonomy and self-sufficiency.
The findings are presented under the five main themes that emerged: self-sufficiency, geographical accessibility, appropriateness, affordability and awareness.
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