self-support
Example Sentences
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The result is that he is very careful about choosing a second mate, for a second divorce would leave him without means of self support.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is undoubtedly the best scheme to enable him to attain self support.
From The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy by Flickinger, Robert Elliott
She did not minimize the hard struggle that Annie Gray had had in her attempts at self support, even when she saw the old man wince.
From Purple Springs by McClung, Nellie L.
The brother who, through misfortune became dependent, was able the sooner to repay his loan and return to independence and to self support.
From Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View by Elliott, Calvin
He did not love Bakkus to such a pitch of brotherly affection as would warrant his relieving him of responsibility for self support.
From The Mountebank by Locke, William John
