Usually means: Maintains functionality without external assistance.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word self-sustaining:

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  1. self-sustaining: Merriam-Webster
  2. self-sustaining: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. self-sustaining: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. self-sustaining: Vocabulary.com
  5. Self-Sustaining, self-sustaining: Wordnik
  6. self-sustaining: Wiktionary
  7. self-sustaining: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. self-sustaining: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. self-sustaining: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. self-sustaining: Dictionary.com
  11. self-sustaining: Rhymezone
  12. self-sustaining: FreeDictionary.org
  13. self-sustaining: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. self-sustaining: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (self-sustaining)

adjective:  Able to provide for one's own needs without help from others; self-sufficient.
adjective:  (of a nuclear chain reaction) Able to sustain itself without the need for additional fuel.
adjective:  Opposing or rejecting exterior influence; independent.

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