Usually means: Ability to meet needs independently.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word self-sufficiency:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. self-sufficiency: Merriam-Webster
  2. self-sufficiency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. self-sufficiency, self-sufficiency: Collins English Dictionary
  4. self-sufficiency: Vocabulary.com
  5. Self-Sufficiency, Self-sufficiency, self-sufficiency: Wordnik
  6. self-sufficiency: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. self-sufficiency: Wiktionary
  8. self-sufficiency: Dictionary.com
  9. self-sufficiency: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. self-sufficiency: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Self-sufficiency: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Self-sufficiency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. self-sufficiency: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. self-sufficiency: Rhymezone
  15. Self-sufficiency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. self-sufficiency: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. self-sufficiency: FreeDictionary.org
  18. self-sufficiency: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. self-sufficiency: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Self-sufficiency: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  2. self-sufficiency: Legal dictionary
  3. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. self-sufficiency: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (self-sufficiency)

▸ noun:  The condition of being self-sufficient.

Similar:
self-reliance, autonomy, self-direction, self-support, sufficiency, independence, sufficientness, selfness, sufficiencie, sufficience, more...
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self-reliance, autonomy, self-direction, self-support, sufficiency, independence, sufficientness, selfness, sufficiencie, sufficience, more...



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