Definition of "do-it-yourself" []

• Of, relating to, or designed to be done by an amateur or as a hobby: do-it-yourself home repairs; a do-it-yourself sailboat kit. (adjective)

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.

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• "This trailer-park owner and inventor from Washington state has developed his own theory of matter, energy and gravity, which he demonstrates in his backyard by using do-it-yourself contraptions made from such materials as a garbage can and a disco fog machine, from which he makes smoke rings."
• "But these days, the chief executive of U.K.-based Kingfisher PLC, the world's third-largest home-improvement group, has a problem that no amount of do-it-yourself labor can fix: His company derives nearly half of its profits from continental Europe."