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   Self-suf·fi·cient

   /ˌselfsəˈfiSH(ə)nt/

   

   adjective

   • 1. needing no outside help in satisfying one's basic needs, especially with regard to the production of food: "I don't think Botswana, due to the climate, could ever be self-sufficient in food"
   • ▪ emotionally and intellectually independent: "their son was a little bit of a loner and very self-sufficient"

   Derivatives

   • 1. self-sufficiently adverb
   • 2. self-sufficing adjective

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