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What does self-sustaining mean?

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Adjective
  1. Able to provide for one's own needs without help from others; self-sufficient.
    1. (of a nuclear chain reaction) Able to sustain itself without the need for additional fuel.
  2. Opposing or rejecting exterior influence; independent.
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Except in rare instances new democracies could not be regarded as self-sustaining, and might require constant correction of one kind or another.
Going back to a self-sustaining community is possible even in our cities, which generate the highest concentration of garbage.
He said that by careful planning, the school had been able to make their agricultural science programme self-sustaining.
The intensions were to create a seasonal fishing industry, a transatlantic operation if you will, not a self-sustaining society.
We believe that self-sustaining populations of native species indicate a healthy or at least a recovering landscape.
In l942, the first nuclear reactor with a self-sustaining chain reaction was built in the United States.

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