State of being in which a person or organization needs little or no help from, or interaction with, others.
1Additionally, the decline undermines the household and national food security and self-sufficiency.
2It provides support and friendship, promotes self-sufficiency and works for social justice.
3The items we're buying online point towards a real desire for self-sufficiency.
4Commodity and mass production replaced by restoration of the commons and self-sufficiency.
5Eritrea has traditionally shunned aid and assistance, preferring the mantra of self-sufficiency.
6That meant they sold wool for cash rather than strove for self-sufficiency.
7We have, as a nation, no small share of self-sufficiency and self-esteem.
8His official job description was head of the 'self-sufficiency department for munitions.
9Nora looked down at the intense self-sufficiency in the eight-year-old girl's eyes.
10Members of parliament have been calling for stricter rules and greater agricultural self-sufficiency.
11The ideal of the protectionist creed is national self-sufficiency in the economic sphere.
12Her continuing work has expanded the possibility of self-sufficiency for indigeous people tremendously.
13However, the addition of a few self-sufficiency items can make them more enjoyable.
14Those with an avoidant attachment style really value independence and self-sufficiency.
15Others describe the self-sufficiency of previous generations that lived mostly off the land.
16She'd been heroic, dynamic, a role model of female self-sufficiency, choice and triumph.
Translations for self-sufficiency