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单词 self-perpetuating
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Definition of self-perpetuating in English:

self-perpetuating

adjective
  • Perpetuating itself or oneself without external agency or intervention.

    the self-perpetuating power of the bureaucracy
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's a self-perpetuating ritual without a cause.
    • She says women suffer from self-perpetuating fears.
    • The desire to regulate becomes self-perpetuating, because bureaucrats who are not seeking to introduce further controls are clearly not doing their job.
    • The whole process has become self-perpetuating.
    • Meanwhile at the top, those wonderful universities that pay such fantastic salaries to their academics, are producing a new class of rich who are becoming self-perpetuating.
    • A perfect example of the unique situations that occur in such small and self-perpetuating populations happened one evening at a party.
    • I've assumed he privileges literature, and that his affection for it over philosophy is self-perpetuating, but where does it originate?
    • This state power is an ever-present self-perpetuating body over and above society.
    • Vast quantities of gold, diamonds and other minerals have been stolen by protagonists of this war, which as a result has become self-perpetuating.
    • This very process would be brought up by said media at every opportunity as a self-perpetuating prophecy, ad nauseam.
    • We are familiar to distraction with the self-perpetuating logic of capitalist institutions, because this logic is the means and end of our cultural products.
    • After a while, the whole process operates as though on auto-pilot, self-serving and self-perpetuating.
    • To the cynical among us, business meetings tend to generate more business meetings in that self-perpetuating manner that is the hallmark of bureaucracy.
    • They are self-perpetuating power centers of our colleges and universities.
    • Since the show attracts entries that mimic previous winners, the contest reconstitutes itself each year in the same self-perpetuating form.
    • You choose to be in that position, because you have always put self-perpetuating defeatism ahead of moral integrity and political courage.
    • These getting-with-the-times projects tend to span across enough years to make themselves self-perpetuating.
    • Needless to say, these grant writers are most often paid with grant money, bringing the system ever closer to becoming a self-perpetuating circularity.
    • Government agencies, even those purportedly dedicated to making money, are inherently inefficient and self-perpetuating.
    • Once those enormous sums of money are in circulation, businesses and therefore employment become self-perpetuating.

Derivatives

  • self-perpetuation

  • nounˌsɛlfpəˌpɛtʃʊˈeɪʃnˌsɛlfpərˌpɛtʃəˈweɪʃ(ə)n
    mass noun
    • The continuation of something by itself without external agency or intervention.

      the self-perpetuation of a capitalist system
      Example sentencesExamples
      • These parties see their self-perpetuation in the narrowest of dimensions, largely by allowing business interests too great a say in local, state and national agendas.
      • These are the people whose careers revolve around self-preservation and self-perpetuation, who never take risks and are the slaves of the pollsters.
      • Is the object of the game abolition, or self-perpetuation?
 
 

Definition of self-perpetuating in US English:

self-perpetuating

adjectiveˈˌsɛlf pərˈpɛtʃəˌweɪdɪŋˈˌself pərˈpeCHəˌwādiNG
  • Perpetuating itself or oneself without external agency or intervention.

    the self-perpetuating power of the bureaucracy
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Needless to say, these grant writers are most often paid with grant money, bringing the system ever closer to becoming a self-perpetuating circularity.
    • After a while, the whole process operates as though on auto-pilot, self-serving and self-perpetuating.
    • You choose to be in that position, because you have always put self-perpetuating defeatism ahead of moral integrity and political courage.
    • Government agencies, even those purportedly dedicated to making money, are inherently inefficient and self-perpetuating.
    • Since the show attracts entries that mimic previous winners, the contest reconstitutes itself each year in the same self-perpetuating form.
    • This state power is an ever-present self-perpetuating body over and above society.
    • A perfect example of the unique situations that occur in such small and self-perpetuating populations happened one evening at a party.
    • This very process would be brought up by said media at every opportunity as a self-perpetuating prophecy, ad nauseam.
    • I've assumed he privileges literature, and that his affection for it over philosophy is self-perpetuating, but where does it originate?
    • Meanwhile at the top, those wonderful universities that pay such fantastic salaries to their academics, are producing a new class of rich who are becoming self-perpetuating.
    • Once those enormous sums of money are in circulation, businesses and therefore employment become self-perpetuating.
    • It's a self-perpetuating ritual without a cause.
    • The desire to regulate becomes self-perpetuating, because bureaucrats who are not seeking to introduce further controls are clearly not doing their job.
    • Vast quantities of gold, diamonds and other minerals have been stolen by protagonists of this war, which as a result has become self-perpetuating.
    • To the cynical among us, business meetings tend to generate more business meetings in that self-perpetuating manner that is the hallmark of bureaucracy.
    • She says women suffer from self-perpetuating fears.
    • The whole process has become self-perpetuating.
    • These getting-with-the-times projects tend to span across enough years to make themselves self-perpetuating.
    • They are self-perpetuating power centers of our colleges and universities.
    • We are familiar to distraction with the self-perpetuating logic of capitalist institutions, because this logic is the means and end of our cultural products.
 
 
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