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self-sustaining Definition

self·-sustaining (-sə stān′iŋ)

adjective

  1. supporting or able to support oneself or itself
  2. able to continue once begun

self-sustaining Related Forms
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.