What is "self-supporting"

Usage examples of "self-supporting".

FIFTEEN HUNDRED years of neglect the Roman defenses at Boghole Gap were still formidable: they were like belt and braces attached to self-supporting trousers.

Thus it will be seen that the missions were organized both agriculturally and commercially so as to be almost self-supporting, and that of the mere necessaries of life they had sufficient for exportation, no small achievement when we consider how averse from labour were the Indians with whom they had to deal.

The peekaboo brassiere with its insets of see-through lace, the high-waisted panties, and the self-supporting stockings were like something out of an old Betty Page comic.

There were thin panels of self-supporting reflective material, several ornate laceworks of spun metallic glass whose functions dwelled in a land beyond elusive, and a number of free-floating geometric shapes that appeared to pulse steadily in and out of existence.

The cacique does not wish his laborers to acquire land in their own right, for he well knows that if they did so they would become self-supporting, and it would cease to be possible for him to hold them as peons, as is commonly done at present.

So these two typologies can, in essence become a self-supporting, symbiotic system.

On that fund there are, if I remember a right, some seventeen annuitants who are in the receipt of eleven hundred a-year, the proceeds of their own self-supporting Institution.

In order to be self-supporting, a book club has to have at least a half-million members, or it isn't worth setting up the machinery - the electronic billers, the electronic addressers, the electronic wrappers, the electronic presses, and the electronic dividend computers.

The C of E ruled that all churches and cathedrals have to be seventy-five percent self-supporting, which means tourists.

The fees that are collected from the polluters will go to subsidize the products of Duke's operations until they are self-supporting.

Largely, national organizers of the Wobblies had to be self-supporting.