SELF-SUFFICIENT


Meaning of SELF-SUFFICIENT in English

1.

If a country or group is ~, it is able to produce or make everything that it needs.

This enabled the country to become ~ in sugar...

Using traditional methods poor farmers can be virtually ~.

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2.

Someone who is ~ is able to live happily without anyone else.

Although she had various boyfriends, Madeleine was, and remains, fiercely ~...

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