Definition of self-supporting in English:

self-supporting

adjective

1Having the resources to be able to survive without outside assistance.
the colonies must be, if nothing else, self-supporting
a self-supporting sea eagle population
Example sentencesExamples
- They were single self-supporting women who lived in pairs or groups, sometimes in settlement houses, and worked as teachers or pioneered in such new professions open to women as librarianship and social work.
- All that said, there's a remarkable string of musicals - especially from the 1940s onward - that feature independent, self-supporting women.
- Today, they are not only self-supporting, economically empowered with a strong sense of self-esteem, but they are also playing an active role in nation building.
- To become self-supporting in the future and to be no longer a financial burden for our sponsor club we have decided to raise money with charity activities.
- In this instance, over time they should become financially self-supporting.
- As a self-supporting enterprise, space flight is far more costly than air travel.
- One possibility was to insist on the right to work and earn a self-supporting wage whenever circumstances dictated that they enter the labor market.
- The CCI wanted the company to be self-supporting by the end of the five-year agreement.
- Artists are mostly self-supporting, although 7 percent of the national budget was devoted to recreational and cultural activities in 1996 and 1997.
- Artists are self-supporting and are forced to seek markets outside the country.
- Such a cost-benefit ratio lends weight to the proposition that, in many cases, infrastructure can be self-supporting, generating its own land value revenue source.
- The idea is for local communities to manage the land, wildlife, and natural resources so they are profitable, and ultimately, self-supporting.
- The independent consultant with any hope of being self-supporting must have an organized library of information available at a moment's notice.
- Such a system is expensive to establish, but once it is in place, it is self-supporting.
- With government support, Cuban agriculture began to react to its immediate needs: to develop a sustainable, self-supporting agricultural system using renewable resources.
- Fee increases for students without bachelor's degrees were particularly difficult for self-supporting students, many of whom were low-income and minority students.
- A self-supporting population may also give international zoos the opportunity to have a platypus.
- Colonies were expected to be financially self-supporting and their revenues consequently often bore the heavy costs of defence and the campaigns of conquest.
- Rather, the Church is to be self-extending, self-governing, and self-supporting because these characteristics arise from the nature of Christian faith.
- Canterbury was self-governing, self-supporting and self-reliant.
Synonyms
self-sufficient, self-sustaining, self-reliant, self-standing, able to stand on one's own two feet, living on one's hump
self-contained, independent, self-made, autarkic, autarkical
2Staying up or upright without being supported by something else.
arches were originally self-supporting structures
Example sentencesExamples
- The prefabricated broadcast studios feature magnetically attached fabric wrapped panels and a self-supporting wood panel system that is isolated from the booths to maintain acoustical integrity.
- Because of their self-supporting design, timber-frame homes can offer large areas of wall space for windows, making them particularly suitable for passive-solar design.
- In addition, the mechanical bond allows the structure to become self-supporting.
- That's why I've come up with my own solution to make this little corner of the page self-supporting.

Derivatives

self-support

noun ˌsɛlfsəˈpɔːtˌsɛlfsəˈpɔrt

mass noun

The condition of surviving without outside assistance.
they have little education or means of self-support
Example sentencesExamples
- Is there a middle-class person in America who doesn't understand the relation of education and skills to self-support in the twenty-first century?
- The local reaction has disempowered many young people and denied them access to self-support and to the support of others who share their concerns.
- The continuing hope behind all this is that teenagers completing courses acquire skills and self-confidence for job hunting or self-support.

Rhymes

unsporting

Definition of self-supporting in US English:

self-supporting

adjectiveˈˌself səˈpôrdiNGˈˌsɛlf səˈpɔrdɪŋ

1Having the resources to be able to survive without outside assistance.
Example sentencesExamples
- Today, they are not only self-supporting, economically empowered with a strong sense of self-esteem, but they are also playing an active role in nation building.
- The independent consultant with any hope of being self-supporting must have an organized library of information available at a moment's notice.
- As a self-supporting enterprise, space flight is far more costly than air travel.
- A self-supporting population may also give international zoos the opportunity to have a platypus.
- Rather, the Church is to be self-extending, self-governing, and self-supporting because these characteristics arise from the nature of Christian faith.
- Artists are self-supporting and are forced to seek markets outside the country.
- Fee increases for students without bachelor's degrees were particularly difficult for self-supporting students, many of whom were low-income and minority students.
- Canterbury was self-governing, self-supporting and self-reliant.
- They were single self-supporting women who lived in pairs or groups, sometimes in settlement houses, and worked as teachers or pioneered in such new professions open to women as librarianship and social work.
- One possibility was to insist on the right to work and earn a self-supporting wage whenever circumstances dictated that they enter the labor market.
- To become self-supporting in the future and to be no longer a financial burden for our sponsor club we have decided to raise money with charity activities.
- Such a system is expensive to establish, but once it is in place, it is self-supporting.
- In this instance, over time they should become financially self-supporting.
- The idea is for local communities to manage the land, wildlife, and natural resources so they are profitable, and ultimately, self-supporting.
- All that said, there's a remarkable string of musicals - especially from the 1940s onward - that feature independent, self-supporting women.
- Such a cost-benefit ratio lends weight to the proposition that, in many cases, infrastructure can be self-supporting, generating its own land value revenue source.
- The CCI wanted the company to be self-supporting by the end of the five-year agreement.
- Artists are mostly self-supporting, although 7 percent of the national budget was devoted to recreational and cultural activities in 1996 and 1997.
- Colonies were expected to be financially self-supporting and their revenues consequently often bore the heavy costs of defence and the campaigns of conquest.
- With government support, Cuban agriculture began to react to its immediate needs: to develop a sustainable, self-supporting agricultural system using renewable resources.
Synonyms
self-sufficient, self-sustaining, self-reliant, self-standing, able to stand on one's own two feet, living on one's hump
2Staying up or upright without being supported by something else.
arches were originally self-supporting structures
Example sentencesExamples
- In addition, the mechanical bond allows the structure to become self-supporting.
- Because of their self-supporting design, timber-frame homes can offer large areas of wall space for windows, making them particularly suitable for passive-solar design.
- The prefabricated broadcast studios feature magnetically attached fabric wrapped panels and a self-supporting wood panel system that is isolated from the booths to maintain acoustical integrity.
- That's why I've come up with my own solution to make this little corner of the page self-supporting.

单词	self-supporting
释义	Definition of self-supporting in English: self-supporting adjective 1Having the resources to be able to survive without outside assistance. the colonies must be, if nothing else, self-supporting a self-supporting sea eagle population Example sentencesExamples They were single self-supporting women who lived in pairs or groups, sometimes in settlement houses, and worked as teachers or pioneered in such new professions open to women as librarianship and social work. All that said, there's a remarkable string of musicals - especially from the 1940s onward - that feature independent, self-supporting women. Today, they are not only self-supporting, economically empowered with a strong sense of self-esteem, but they are also playing an active role in nation building. To become self-supporting in the future and to be no longer a financial burden for our sponsor club we have decided to raise money with charity activities. In this instance, over time they should become financially self-supporting. As a self-supporting enterprise, space flight is far more costly than air travel. One possibility was to insist on the right to work and earn a self-supporting wage whenever circumstances dictated that they enter the labor market. The CCI wanted the company to be self-supporting by the end of the five-year agreement. Artists are mostly self-supporting, although 7 percent of the national budget was devoted to recreational and cultural activities in 1996 and 1997. Artists are self-supporting and are forced to seek markets outside the country. Such a cost-benefit ratio lends weight to the proposition that, in many cases, infrastructure can be self-supporting, generating its own land value revenue source. The idea is for local communities to manage the land, wildlife, and natural resources so they are profitable, and ultimately, self-supporting. The independent consultant with any hope of being self-supporting must have an organized library of information available at a moment's notice. Such a system is expensive to establish, but once it is in place, it is self-supporting. With government support, Cuban agriculture began to react to its immediate needs: to develop a sustainable, self-supporting agricultural system using renewable resources. Fee increases for students without bachelor's degrees were particularly difficult for self-supporting students, many of whom were low-income and minority students. A self-supporting population may also give international zoos the opportunity to have a platypus. Colonies were expected to be financially self-supporting and their revenues consequently often bore the heavy costs of defence and the campaigns of conquest. Rather, the Church is to be self-extending, self-governing, and self-supporting because these characteristics arise from the nature of Christian faith. Canterbury was self-governing, self-supporting and self-reliant. Synonyms self-sufficient, self-sustaining, self-reliant, self-standing, able to stand on one's own two feet, living on one's hump self-contained, independent, self-made, autarkic, autarkical 2Staying up or upright without being supported by something else. arches were originally self-supporting structures Example sentencesExamples The prefabricated broadcast studios feature magnetically attached fabric wrapped panels and a self-supporting wood panel system that is isolated from the booths to maintain acoustical integrity. Because of their self-supporting design, timber-frame homes can offer large areas of wall space for windows, making them particularly suitable for passive-solar design. In addition, the mechanical bond allows the structure to become self-supporting. That's why I've come up with my own solution to make this little corner of the page self-supporting. Derivatives self-support noun ˌsɛlfsəˈpɔːtˌsɛlfsəˈpɔrt mass noun The condition of surviving without outside assistance. they have little education or means of self-support Example sentencesExamples Is there a middle-class person in America who doesn't understand the relation of education and skills to self-support in the twenty-first century? The local reaction has disempowered many young people and denied them access to self-support and to the support of others who share their concerns. The continuing hope behind all this is that teenagers completing courses acquire skills and self-confidence for job hunting or self-support. Rhymes unsporting Definition of self-supporting in US English: self-supporting adjectiveˈˌself səˈpôrdiNGˈˌsɛlf səˈpɔrdɪŋ 1Having the resources to be able to survive without outside assistance. Example sentencesExamples Today, they are not only self-supporting, economically empowered with a strong sense of self-esteem, but they are also playing an active role in nation building. The independent consultant with any hope of being self-supporting must have an organized library of information available at a moment's notice. As a self-supporting enterprise, space flight is far more costly than air travel. A self-supporting population may also give international zoos the opportunity to have a platypus. Rather, the Church is to be self-extending, self-governing, and self-supporting because these characteristics arise from the nature of Christian faith. Artists are self-supporting and are forced to seek markets outside the country. Fee increases for students without bachelor's degrees were particularly difficult for self-supporting students, many of whom were low-income and minority students. Canterbury was self-governing, self-supporting and self-reliant. They were single self-supporting women who lived in pairs or groups, sometimes in settlement houses, and worked as teachers or pioneered in such new professions open to women as librarianship and social work. One possibility was to insist on the right to work and earn a self-supporting wage whenever circumstances dictated that they enter the labor market. To become self-supporting in the future and to be no longer a financial burden for our sponsor club we have decided to raise money with charity activities. Such a system is expensive to establish, but once it is in place, it is self-supporting. In this instance, over time they should become financially self-supporting. The idea is for local communities to manage the land, wildlife, and natural resources so they are profitable, and ultimately, self-supporting. All that said, there's a remarkable string of musicals - especially from the 1940s onward - that feature independent, self-supporting women. Such a cost-benefit ratio lends weight to the proposition that, in many cases, infrastructure can be self-supporting, generating its own land value revenue source. The CCI wanted the company to be self-supporting by the end of the five-year agreement. Artists are mostly self-supporting, although 7 percent of the national budget was devoted to recreational and cultural activities in 1996 and 1997. Colonies were expected to be financially self-supporting and their revenues consequently often bore the heavy costs of defence and the campaigns of conquest. With government support, Cuban agriculture began to react to its immediate needs: to develop a sustainable, self-supporting agricultural system using renewable resources. Synonyms self-sufficient, self-sustaining, self-reliant, self-standing, able to stand on one's own two feet, living on one's hump 2Staying up or upright without being supported by something else. arches were originally self-supporting structures Example sentencesExamples In addition, the mechanical bond allows the structure to become self-supporting. Because of their self-supporting design, timber-frame homes can offer large areas of wall space for windows, making them particularly suitable for passive-solar design. The prefabricated broadcast studios feature magnetically attached fabric wrapped panels and a self-supporting wood panel system that is isolated from the booths to maintain acoustical integrity. That's why I've come up with my own solution to make this little corner of the page self-supporting.
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