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What is "self-reliant"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
self-reliant
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ David learned to be self-reliant at a young age.
▪ My parents raised me to be self-reliant, and not to depend on anyone.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But you must also find ways of working alone and becoming more self-reliant.
▪ Finally, what looks like a determination to be patriotically self-reliant is simultaneously the opposite: the formalisation of complete dependency.
▪ First, you should recognize that you need to be much more self-reliant than you've ever been before.
▪ Gruff and inordinately self-reliant, Gordon was highly conservative in attitude, theology, and lifestyle.
▪ Hearts hardened by the decline of corporate job protection, these workers are demanding, mobile and self-reliant.
▪ Squats had become stocky, tough and self-reliant.
▪ Stories about her childhood suggest that she was shrewd, self-reliant, and unorthodox.
▪ You can help give them a more self-reliant future.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Self-reliant

Self-reliant \Self`-re*li"ant\, a. Reliant upon one's self; trusting to one's own powers or judgment.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
self-reliant

1826, from self- + reliant.

Wiktionary
self-reliant

a. Reliant upon one's self; trusting to one's own powers or judgment.

WordNet
self-reliant

adj. of persons; free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment [syn: autonomous, self-directed]

Usage examples of "self-reliant".

They would rather see a nation of sheeple dependent on big government than a nation of strong, self-reliant families.

Accustomed to a routine five percent increase in the cost of electricity, and ten or twelve in any year when a nuclear reactor melted down—because such installations had long ago ceased to be insurable and the cost of failure could only be recouped from the consumer—the strangers were astonished at the cheapness of energy in this self-reliant community.

Perhaps it was a holdover from her chosen self-reliant life-style all the way back in the dinosaur days of the '60s, but Edwina Godz was willing to live by the wisdom that if you wanted to live life to the fullest, without the pesky interference of the Man, you should definitely grow your own.