self-sustaining
self-sustaining
Definition
self·-sustaining (-sə stān′iŋ)
adjective
- supporting or able to support oneself or itself
- able to continue once begun
self′·-sustained′ adjective
self-sustaining
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- become: These reforms have to become self-sustaining, driven by the wishes of the users not the producer.
- make: This should take around ten to fifteen minutes. *The next step is to make the field self-sustaining.
- realize: Do we have a strategy to realize the self-sustaining learning society?
Modifies a noun
- population: Action plan objectives and targets Halt the current decline and maintain at least 50 self-sustaining populations.
- group: These self-sustaining groups are an essential part of the life of our graduate school.
- seizure: The maximum time any animal will be allowed to have self-sustaining seizures is 3 hours.
- system: The money could support greater use of such automated systems, to produce a self-sustaining system.
- community: In Africa our aim is to help support and develop self-sustaining communities utilizing education as a major component of our interventions.
- literate: There is a long term commitment, from all of our partners, to work toward making Birmingham a self-sustaining literate and numerate city.
Browse dictionary entries near self-sustaining
- self-surrender
- self-support
- self-suggestion
- self-sufficient
- self-styled
- self-study
- self-sterile
- self-starter
- self-sown
- self-serving
- self-taught
- self-torture
- self-will
- self-willed
- self-winding
- self-worth
- selfheal
- selfhood
- selfish
- selfishly
