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self-support

[self-suh-pawrt, -pohrt, self-] / ˈsɛlf səˈpɔrt, -ˈpoʊrt, ˌsɛlf- /
NOUN
self-sufficiency
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In the meantime, McMurtry has launched a free web-based app for athletes to find self-support strategies and define how they best communicate and absorb information.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2024

It assumes that she would have that capacity for independence and self-support as a woman, which is something that was almost anathema to the white columnists of the time.

From Slate • May 16, 2021

Planted in full sun along a border, it will self-support and grow up to 3' tall.

From Time • Sep. 24, 2017

That’s a factor-of-10 difference in grassroots support versus self-support.

From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2015

Mother already secretly offered him her wedding ring plus a thousand dollars, which supposedly we’d dig up after we got back to Georgia without Father or any visible means of self-support.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver