self-support

as in independence
the ability to care for one's self hopes to achieve full self-support within a year of graduating from college

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Recent Examples of self-support And for the public, keep it to low-risk self-support — journaling prompts, CBT-style reflections and light coaching — wrapped in clear disclaimers and with instant handoffs to a human whenever risk appears. John Samuels, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025 But the idea of hiking the PCT self-supported has been percolating for about five years. Emily Lapointe, Outside Online, 1 May 2025 Dreyer intended to swim self-supported about 83 miles across Lake Michigan, an ultra-endurance feat expected to take at least 72 hours. Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2024 Since the self-support era, Tokyo has introduced at least one new plan a decade to improve rural development. Fritz Schumann, Foreign Affairs, 29 Mar. 2015
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Noun
  • The Athletic maintains full editorial independence.
    Data Skrive, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Despite the change, the country remains home to the longest-running civil war in the world since gaining its independence from the United Kingdom in 1948.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • To enable genuine team autonomy, start by defining clear roles and responsibilities to reduce founder dependency.
    Guy Peixoto, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Freelancers also enjoy project variety and autonomy.
    Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At the same time, philosophies like Garveyism, which had emphasized separation, self-sufficiency, and building parallel Black institutions, declined in popularity.
    Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The giants of Silicon Valley have a lot in common with Laura Ingalls Wilder, who portrayed her life on the prairie as a triumph of self-sufficiency, barely mentioning that the government underwrote the railroads, provided the farmland and tided the family through rough winters.
    Binyamin Appelbaum, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Self-support.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-support. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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