The Collaborative International Dictionary
Self-sufficing
Self-sufficing \Self`-suf*fi"cing\, a.
Sufficing for one's self or for itself, without needing
external aid; self-sufficient. -- Self`-suf*fi"cing*ness,
n.
--J. C. Shairp.
WordNet
self-sufficing
adj. able to provide for your own needs without help from others; "a self-sufficing economic unit" [syn: self-sufficient, self-sustaining]
Usage examples of "self-sufficing".
The people can be sovereign only in the sense in which they exist and act. The people are not God, whatever some theorists may pretend--are not independent, self-existent, and self-sufficing.
At Oxford he had rationalised it in his philosophical studies, but he had never troubled to make it a self-sufficing logical creed.