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self-help Definition

self·-help (-help′)

noun

care for or betterment of oneself by one's own efforts, as through study

self-help Law Definition

n

A person’s attempt to remedy a wrong perceived done to him by that person’s own actions, rather than through the legal system. Under the Uniform Commercial Code, a creditor may take possession of a debtor’s collateral upon default, if it can be done without breaching the peace.
self-help Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • promote: Our mission is to promote self-help, healthy eating habits, healthy living styles, & raise general health awareness in the wider community.
  • encourage: We provide revolving loan schemes to encourage self-help sustainable projects.
  • guide: Follow-up sessions: A minority of patients are offered follow-up sessions for continued guided self-help.
  • support: The Plunkett Foundation is an educational charity which advocates and supports economic self-help as an effective instrument for meeting the needs of rural communities.
  • offer: Our knowledgebase is a tool that offers fast online self-help for technical problems.
  • provide: To provide self-help of adults that will be given by adults, and for them to arrange social activities to promote social inclusion.

Preposition: in

  • community: It advocates and supports economic self-help in rural communities, supporting the growth and development of farmer-controlled businesses.

Adjective modifier

  • mutual: Over 160 years later, mutual self-help is still the cornerstone of the Foresters ' activities helping charities through hundreds of fund-raising events.
  • good: Lose Weight Now was at number 8 in the UK's overall best selling self-help audio charts for 2003.

Modifies a noun

  • guru: Life's complex, with fundamentalists at school and shifty self-help gurus clogging the airways.
  • workbook: Everyone will receive a free self-help workbook at some point during the study.
  • group: Making contact with others through prostate cancer self-help groups may also be useful.
  • guide: Get advice on common health problems from the self-help guide.. .
  • booklet: During this time, they are helped to understand what depression is and to begin using a range of self-help booklets.
  • book: I've sounded like a self-help book more than enough now.

Noun used with modifier

  • addict: I will be talking about the introduction of Ibogaine in the addict self-help scene in Holland.
  • selling: Lose Weight Now was at number 8 in the UK's overall best selling self-help audio charts for 2003.
  • community: No Panic is based upon local community self-help groups, with members who try to help each other back to a normal lifestyle.
  • web: Email replies can also include a link to web self-help to continue trouble-shooting.
  • parent: SPAN is keen that one parent family self-help groups get the support they need from organizations in their communities to develop and thrive.
self-help Quotes

The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.

—Smiles, Samuel

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

—Smiles, Samuel