Usually means: Autonomous control over one's actions.
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  1. self-directed: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. self-directed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. self-directed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. self-directed, self-directed: Collins English Dictionary
  5. self-directed: Vocabulary.com
  6. Self-Directed, Self-directed, self-directed: Wordnik
  7. self-directed: Wiktionary
  8. self-directed: Dictionary.com
  9. self-directed: Rhymezone
  10. self-directed: Free Dictionary
  11. self-directed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. self-directed: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. self-directed: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (self-directed)

▸ adjective:  Directed, independently by oneself without external control or constraint; directed for oneself.
▸ adjective:  Directed at oneself.

Similar:
self-reliant, autonomous, independent, self-guided, self-ordained, self-regulated, self-produced, self-taught, go-it-alone, self-structured, more...

Opposite:
dependent, directed, guided, led, controlled

Phrases:
self-directed ira, self-directed learning, more...

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Similar:
self-reliant, autonomous, independent, self-guided, self-ordained, self-regulated, self-produced, self-taught, go-it-alone, self-structured, more...

Opposite:
dependent, directed, guided, led, controlled

Phrases:
self-directed ira, self-directed learning, more...



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