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单词 self-sufficient
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self-sufficient

1. adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE]
If a country or group is self-sufficient, it is able to produce or make everything that it needs.
This enabled the country to become self-sufficient in sugar. [+ in]
Using traditional methods poor farmers can be virtually self-sufficient.
2. adjective
Someone who is self-sufficient is able to live happily without anyone else.
Although she had various boyfriends, she was, and remains, fiercely self-sufficient.
He'd created a tiny, self-sufficient world for himself.
Synonyms: independent, self-contained, self-reliant, self-sustaining More Synonyms of self-sufficient

self-sufficient in British English

or self-sufficing
adjective
able to provide for or support oneself without the help of others
Derived forms
self-sufficiency (ˌself-sufˈficiency)
noun
self-sufficiently (ˌself-sufˈficiently)
adverb

self-sufficient in American English

(ˈsɛlfsəˈfɪʃənt)
adjective
having the necessary resources to get along without help; independent
: also ˈself-sufˈficing (ˈsɛlfsəˈfaɪsɪŋ)
Derived forms
self-sufficiency (ˈself-sufˈficiency)
noun

Examples of 'self-sufficient' in a sentence
self-sufficient

They grow much of their food and are self-sufficient.
The Sun (2013)
They will be self-sufficient in energy using wind turbines and solar power.
The Sun (2007)
The club is now financially self-sufficient and the ground proudly bears its famous name again.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
This money allows poor countries to become self-sufficient.
The Sun (2010)
The laws were brought into make clubs self-sufficient and not reliant on wealthy backers.
The Sun (2014)
The young robins who were calling for food are now self-sufficient.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Or perhaps all of the demonstrators are financially self-sufficient.
The Sun (2013)
The dream of the self-sufficient solitary life becomes a struggle for survival.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The aim is to make the refugee self-sufficient within a year.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
She is instructing them to defend themselves against fears of abandonment and become emotionally self-sufficient.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Any attempt to make science self-sufficient is doomed to failure.
Christianity Today (2000)
Trade is the only way for them to become richer as they move away from dependency and become self-sufficient.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Those who are economically inactive have to prove that they are financially self-sufficient to be allowed a right to reside.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The group is now financially self-sufficient.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Village roads and irrigation systems were introduced alongside crop substitution and fish farming to help the tribes become self-sufficient and make money.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Ministers aim to make Britain virtually self-sufficient in energy.
The Sun (2008)
And yet the Museum was supposed to be self-sufficient financially.
Judith Flanders Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain (2006)
The giant cities of the future will look to become increasingly food self-sufficient, driving rapid growth in urban agriculture.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
There will be two wind turbines in the grounds to power the lighting and pumps, making the property self-sufficient in energy.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)

In other languages
self-sufficient

British English: self-sufficient ADJECTIVE
If a country or group is self-sufficient, it is able to produce or make everything that it needs.
This enabled the country to become self-sufficient in sugar.
  • American English: self-sufficient
  • Brazilian Portuguese: autossuficiente
  • Chinese: 自给自足
  • European Spanish: autosuficiente
  • French: autonome
  • German: selbstständig
  • Italian: autosufficiente
  • Japanese: 自給自足の
  • Korean: 자급자족할 수 있는
  • European Portuguese: autossuficiente
  • Latin American Spanish: autosuficiente
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