单词 | self-supporting |
释义 | self-supporting From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishself-supportingˌself-supˈporting adjective1 INDEPENDENT PERSONable to earn enough money to support yourself The business will soon become self-supporting.2 able to stand or stay upright without support self-supporting fencingExamples from the Corpusself-supporting• It is perhaps unfortunate, but true, that the United Kingdom is not self-supporting.• This might be taken to imply that each Board should be financially self-supporting.• Originally North Dalton was a self-supporting agricultural village with farming being the only means of employment.• The city is on a self-supporting basis without patients, just by shipping the water to Hot Springs, Ark.• Once the poles are secured the inner is a self-supporting dome.• University athletic departments have to be self-supporting for the most part.• How do we weave a self-supporting network out of random organisms?• Their mutual self-supporting pose is continuously almost-falling, like a standing wave in a spring creek. |
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