DIY

American  

[dee-ahy-wahy] / ˈdiˈaɪˈwaɪ /

Or D.I.Y.

abbreviation

1. do-it-yourself.

   DIY house decorating;

   The new couple who bought the apartment next door are very nice, but their DIY makes quite a racket.

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DIY British  

abbreviation

1. do-it-yourself

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Other Word Forms

• DIYer noun

Example Sentences

It’s a reasonable DIY strategy that feels completely radical.

From Los Angeles Times

“It’s not so much that DIY software can’t handle it or you’ll make a mistake, it’s that you might miss out on a tax-savings strategy for no other reason than you just didn’t know it existed.”

From MarketWatch

Instead of, you know, casting them literally onto the street and forcing them to conjure up their own imperfect, and very expensive, DIY solutions.

From Los Angeles Times

Because that’s what the digital age has made us — a DIY economy in which millions of jobs no longer exist not because computers do the work, but because the work has been shifted, via computers, directly onto the consumer.

From Los Angeles Times

Don’t overlook DIY gifts either.

From MarketWatch