self-sufficient

Preposition: in

• energy: How many have helped make a single school, library, fire station, police station or hospital even halfway self-sufficient in energy?
• food: We are no longer self-sufficient in food in the UK.
• production: In future the UK might have to become more self-sufficient in food production, or even a net exporter of food.
• oil: In 15 years we will go from 80 % self-sufficient in oil and gas to 80 % imported.
• term: We tour throughout the UK and are self-sufficient in terms of set and sound equipment.
• area: About half of the survey considered themselves to be self-sufficient in this area.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

make: We're trying to make the whole work self-sufficient.

Modifying Another Word

• financially: Funding No national library is ever going to be able to be financially self-sufficient.
• economically: The outcome of the plan was to be a more economically self-sufficient railroad.
• virtually: The Edwards are virtually self-sufficient, only buying in seaweed.
• largely: Local groups are expected to be largely self-sufficient due to the limited resources of the national Campaign.
• entirely: A ' Pygmy ' can be entirely self-sufficient at the age of seven.
• totally: Everything I've ever done has been totally self-sufficient.

Used with adjective complement

become: You must have the ability to become self-sufficient in a matter of moments!

Modifies a noun

• entity: He viewed the solitary wave as a self-sufficient dynamic entity, a " thing " displaying many properties of a particle.
• economy: The feudal system of Europe was based on a self-sufficient economy.
• farm: Whilst growing up on a self-sufficient farm, she sold eggs at farmers ' markets.
• community: Most people lived by or near their place of work in small, self-sufficient communities.
• individual: In this respect each cell is a self-sufficient individual.
• life: During the late 1940's and early 1950's, Susan and Euan lived an almost self-sufficient life on their farm in North Wales.