as in independent
able to take care of oneself or itself without outside help
that country was agronomically self-subsistent before industrialization
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“Self-subsistent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-subsistent. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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