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

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. self-sufficient: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. self-sufficient: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. self-sufficient: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. self-sufficient, self-sufficient: Collins English Dictionary
  5. self-sufficient: Vocabulary.com
  6. Self-Sufficient, Self-sufficient, self-sufficient: Wordnik
  7. self-sufficient: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. self-sufficient: Wiktionary
  9. self-sufficient: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. self-sufficient: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. self-sufficient: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. self-sufficient: Dictionary.com
  13. self-sufficient: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Self-sufficient: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Self-sufficient: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. self-sufficient: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. self-sufficient: Rhymezone
  18. self-sufficient: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. self-sufficient: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. self-sufficient: Free Dictionary
  21. self-sufficient: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. self-sufficient: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. self-sufficient: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Able to provide for oneself independently of others; not needing external support.
adjective:  (obsolete) Overconfident in one's own abilities; arrogant.

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