self-sufficientadjective
uk/ˌself.səˈfɪʃ.ənt/us/ˌself.səˈfɪʃ.ənt/C2 able to provide everything you need, especially food, for yourself without the help of other people:
The programme aims to make the country self-sufficient in food production and to cut energy imports.
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Unaided and working alone
- fend for yourself
- go
- go it alone idiom
- independent
- own
- self-help
- self-reliant
- self-taught
- stand
- stand on your own (two) feet idiom
- stand-alone
- steam
- throw
- throw sb back on their own resources idiom
- unaided
- unassisted
- under your own steam idiom
- unsupported
- with your own fair hand(s) idiom
- yourself
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self-sufficiency
noun [ U ] uk/ˌself.səˈfɪʃ.ən.si/us/ˌself.səˈfɪʃ.ən.si/