as in independent
able to take care of oneself or itself without outside help
she had to take a higher-paying job in order to be self-supporting
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The homes' cutting-edge features are designed to feed into a self-supporting energy system that powers each neighborhood with a community battery and has the capability to operate independently during a grid outage.
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Medgina Saint-Elien, House Beautiful, 23 Mar. 2023
Medgina Saint-Elien, House Beautiful, 23 Mar. 2023
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“Self-supporting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-supporting. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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