self-support

[ self-suh-pawrt, -pohrt, self- ]

/ ˈsɛlf səˈpɔrt, -ˈpoʊrt, ˌsɛlf- /

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noun

the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.

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Origin of self-support

First recorded in 1760–70

OTHER WORDS FROM self-support

self-sup·port·ed, adjectiveself-sup·port·ed·ness, nounself-sup·port·ing, adjectiveself-sup·port·ing·ly, adverb

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self-storage, self-study, self-styled, self-sufficient, self-suggestion, self-support, self-supporting, self-surrender, self-sustaining, self-talk, self-tanning

How to use self-support in a sentence

We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.
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“I do not support gay marriages being recognized in Florida,” he wrote Andrew Walther of Sanford.
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Stephanie Giorgio, a classical musician, credits The Class for helping her cope with anxiety, focus, fear, and self-doubt.
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For someone with anorexia, self-starvation makes them feel better.
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If the Israel model ban were directed towards disordered eating, Ravin says she would support it whole-heartedly.
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Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
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Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.
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At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.
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His enemies persistently insinuated that he was really returning to Spain to support the clericals actively.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
But to wave this discourse of Heathens, how many self-contradicting principles are there held among Christians?
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