Usually means: Manage or survive without help.
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  1. fend for oneself: Merriam-Webster
  2. fend for oneself: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fend for oneself: Wiktionary

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  1. fend for oneself: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fend for oneself)

▸ verb:  To take care of oneself without help.

Similar:
fend, help oneself, self-deal, fend off, fend away, keep oneself to oneself, leave someone to their own devices, walk away, deny oneself, keep house, more...

Opposite:
depend, rely, count on, leon, trust in

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Similar:
fend, help oneself, self-deal, fend off, fend away, keep oneself to oneself, leave someone to their own devices, walk away, deny oneself, keep house, more...

Opposite:
depend, rely, count on, leon, trust in



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