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If a country or group is self-sufficient , it is able to produce or make everything that it needs.
This enabled the country to become self-sufficient in sugar...
Using traditional methods poor farmers can be virtually self-sufficient.
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Someone who is self-sufficient is able to live happily without anyone else.
Although she had various boyfriends, Madeleine was, and remains, fiercely self-sufficient...
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