Definition of self-sustaining
1
: maintaining or able to maintain oneself or itself by independent effort
a self-sustaining community
2
: maintaining or able to maintain itself once commenced
a self-sustaining nuclear reaction
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The first known use of self-sustaining was in 1797
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