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Definition of "self-support" [self-support]

  • The act of or capacity for supporting oneself, especially financially, without the help of others. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "self-support" in a sentence
  • "My judgement is that one of the first things to be done with these people, to qualify them for citizenship, for self-protection and self-support, is to impress upon them the family obligations."
  • "When in the presence of Irish, blacks wallowed in filth and idleness but “where the blacks were found by themselves, we generally encountered tidiness, and some sincere attempt at industry and honest self-support.”"
  • "The new technology developed to enable human self-support on the surface of Moon and Mars can have valuable applications on Earth, by gaining advances in health care and medicine, resource and environmental management, new construction, better products, new jobs, new world, and many other new areas."