self-sustaining

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ sustaining.

Adjective

self-sustaining (comparative more self-sustaining, superlative most self-sustaining)

1. Able to provide for one's own needs without help from others; self-sufficient.
   • 2007 May 20, Mark Svenvold, “The Zero-Energy Solution”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     There was nothing odd, or futuristic, or exotically “eco” about the house — no solar panels to be seen, no giant arrays of thermopane windows passively drinking up light and heat; yet here, I’d been told, in the Sourland Mountains in New Jersey, an hour from Manhattan, was a house that had the potential — not long from now, not 20 years from now, but maybe within 5 to 10 years — to help turn millions of American homes into fully self-sustaining power plants, each one capable of producing hydrogen to fuel cars as well.

   1. (of a nuclear chain reaction) Able to sustain itself without the need for additional fuel.
2. Opposing or rejecting exterior influence; independent.

Translations

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• Greek: ^{(please verify)} αυτοσυντήρητος (el) m (aftosyntíritos)
• Irish: ^{(please verify)} féinchothaithe, ^{(please verify)} féinchothabhálach
• Occitan: ^{(please verify)} autosufisent

See also

• self-sufficient