self-supporting

adjective

1. able to support or maintain oneself without the help of others
2. able to stand up or hold firm without support, props, attachments, etc

Example Sentences

There is hope that the site will one day be self-supporting from ad sales.

From The Daily Beast

We hope to make this hotel self-supporting in a few years, though it could not be accomplished in the beginning.

From Project Gutenberg

Strenuous effort has always been made in some clubs to make them self-supporting; they seem almost to live for that purpose.

From Project Gutenberg

Last March there graduated at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania one of these self-supporting young men.

From Project Gutenberg

There were there impregnating powers and mighty forces, a self-supporting principle beneath and energy aloft.

From Project Gutenberg

The tendency ever is to cultivate profitable and self-supporting fields and sound business policies.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• autonomous
• nonpartisan
• self-contained
• self-governing
• self-reliant
• self-sufficient