What is "self-sufficient"

Usage examples of "self-sufficient".

It was not, however, completely self-sufficient in food and imported some from other Anchors, and a fair amount of the place outside of the center was given over to woods and wildernesslike areas in which game abounded.

After three long years of backbreaking work the plantation was finally self-sufficient, and with a competent overseer it would remain so until he returned from Virginia.

Here, too, Burns was the president, and the members were chiefly the sons of husbandmen, whom he found, he said, more natural in their manners, and more agreeable than the self-sufficient mechanics of villages and towns, who were ready to dispute on all topics, and inclined to be convinced on none.

As for necessities, all the Dales in this locality were basically self-sufficient and traded for what they required or wanted chiefly among themselves, rarely venturing even as far as Linna either to acquire or dispose of goods.

Britain, of course imports 60 percent of the fresh fruit, 20 percent of the grain, and 23 percent of the meat its people consume, whereas the Lawa are self-sufficient in food.

Often a grassy plain in California, is what it should be, but often, too, it is best contemplated at a distance, because although its grass blades are tall, they stand up vindictively straight and self-sufficient, and are unsociably wide apart, with uncomely spots of barren sand between.

And although they were occasionally visited by Yunnanese traders bringing silver, cloth, thread, shoes, and cooking pots, they were able to keep trade to a minimum because they were so self-sufficient.

He killed seventeen women, he had never been gainfully employed for any extended period of time, he suffered from an array of addictions and compulsions, and he was never self-sufficient.

He and Philipa were more than self-sufficient in food, most of it grown and canned with their own hands, and none of it was adulterated with dyes, preservatives, or fillers.

There is an element of exasperation in most economic and social reactions, and there is hardly a reforming or revolutionary movement in history which is not essentially an indiscriminate attack of one functioning class or type upon another, on the assumption that the attacked class is entirely to blame for the clash and that the attacking class is self-sufficient in the commonweal and can dispense with its annoying collaborator.

It was extraordinary that a girl could be so self-sufficient on a tedious space-voyage, and Bordman approved of her.

It abided as it had for centuries, a coenobium, wholly self-contained, entirely self-sufficient.

The ability to cover a distance was a plus, making the industrious colossi more self-sufficient.

The upper extreme of 1,100 people per square mile was reached on the high island of Anuta, whose population converted essentially all the land to intensive food production, thereby crammed 160 people into the island's 100 acres, and joined the ranks of the densest self-sufficient populations in the world.

The upper extreme of 1,100 people per square mile was reached on the high island of Anuta, whose population converted essentially all the land to intensive food production, thereby crammed 160 people into the island’s 100 acres, and joined the ranks of the densest self-sufficient populations in the world.