A self-sufficing economic unit. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : The nation grows enough grain to be self-sufficient. ,He was self-sufficient, and always reminded you of it. From Dictionary.com.
But it was a self-sufficing house, an epitome of humanity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
Crates praises self-sufficing simplicity, isolation, and freedom. From Wordnik.com. [CYNICISM] Reference
There, the fearlessness and self-sufficing quality of all that lives. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
‘And he who lacks something is not in all points self-sufficing?’. From Wordnik.com. [Consolation of Philosophy] Reference
Little Marian came and went, a living sunbeam, a self-sufficing thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.] Reference
Further, human nature is more self-sufficing than irrational creatures. From Wordnik.com. [The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas] Reference
Empire, with its immense resources mostly latent, a self-sufficing unit. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Spoon] Reference
Company of phalanstery of Own way the phalanstery one is a self-sufficing city. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
But, like most twins, they were self-sufficing; besides, they were several years older. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
It must, however, be observed that what is solitary should be self-sufficing by itself. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
The state is independent and self-sufficing, but a slave is the reverse of independent. From Wordnik.com. [Politics] Reference
Is it advisable to keep our own people self-sufficing, producing all they need to consume?. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
He walked towards Pevensey Blythe, in the office of that self-sufficing weekly: The Outpost. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Spoon] Reference
What secret force within that spare form, lying there inert, had made him thus self-sufficing?. From Wordnik.com. [Swan Song] Reference
Besides, the final cause and end of a thing is the best, and to be self-sufficing is the end and the best. From Wordnik.com. [Politics] Reference
It would be difficult to have a more scholarly, more adequate, more self-sufficing edition of a favourite book. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
In comparison with painting and sculpture, music and the literature of the theatre are not self-sufficing arts. From Wordnik.com. [Style in Singing] Reference
If by The Good we mean the principle most wholly self-sufficing, utterly without need of any other, what can it be but this?. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
A State, I said, arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants. From Wordnik.com. [The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett] Reference
It is a self-sufficing little commonwealth, in which a quite surprising variety of professions or occupations are represented. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Ind And Other Poems] Reference
If all were one identity, the total could not contain this variety of forms; there would be nothing but a self-sufficing unity. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
In the first place, of course, the two are but parts of a still larger whole, neither being an independent, self-sufficing entity. From Wordnik.com. [On the Firing Line in Education] Reference
The state is "a community of well-being in families and aggregations of families for the sake of a perfect and self-sufficing life.". From Wordnik.com. [Politics: A Treatise on Government] Reference
And the state is the union of families and villages in a perfect and self-sufficing life, by which we mean a happy and honorable life. From Wordnik.com. [Politics] Reference
And of two things that which stands less in need of the other, or of other things, is the greater good, since it is more self-sufficing. From Wordnik.com. [Rhetoric] Reference
The volume of critical work published in Germany is so considerable as to foster the illusion that it constitutes a self-sufficing world. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
Also one of the conditions of happiness is that it be self-sufficing, else it would not set man's appetite at rest, as the last end does. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
But in this busy region with its self-sufficing agriculture, the actual surplus capital, as in the South, found its way to Eastern cities. From Wordnik.com. [Expansion and Conflict] Reference
It is the compensation of such natures that they are self-sufficing and are as indifferent of such recognition as they are superior to it. From Wordnik.com. [Calvert of Strathore] Reference
He claims for the individual limitless rights; and, repudiating all moral ties, asserts the complete sovereignty of the self-sufficing ego. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
If any imperfect creature were self-sufficing, what would he have to enjoy?. From Wordnik.com. [Emile] Reference
But he was a quiet, self-sufficing youth, and was rarely to be seen in public. From Wordnik.com. [The White Feather] Reference
I had all that she could give me -- she that was self-sufficing, not to be imparted. From Wordnik.com. [Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution] Reference
How should he be dependent on any one when he is self-sufficing and free from prejudice?. From Wordnik.com. [Emile] Reference
Unlike in the expression of their beauty, but alike in this, -- that each was self-sufficing. From Wordnik.com. [Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman.] Reference
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