self-help
noun
the act of providing for or helping or the ability to provide for or help oneself without assistance from others.
self-helping
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a word derived from
self-help.
Example Sentences
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Whether or not the latest wave of self-helping meditators or corporate practitioners of ‘mindfulness’ know it, the spiritual enlightenment sweeping America has strong ties to Buddhism, thanks in part to one huggable ex-monk in California.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2014
The example he gave was Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe, which he saw as a utopian portrait of the self-helping capitalist.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2012
I just want to raise strong, individual, self-helping, little people.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2011
For nearly two years they have been organized in a self-helping Unemployed Citizens League of high political potency.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet so erect and self-helping in appearance was the figure on the cobbler's bench that one for a moment failed to note in what the affliction consisted.
From Bricks Without Straw by Albion Winegar Tourgée
