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What does self-made mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word self-made? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of a person, having achieved success by one's own efforts.
  2. Of a thing, made by oneself instead of bought or taken over.
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One was an aristocrat educated at Harrow and Cambridge, the other a self-made man from small-town South India.
Following his great-grandfather's precepts, it seems he can justly claim to be a self-made man.
Mills was a self-made man who descended from a family of Scotch-English ancestry.
He told me that the self-made bomb looked like about 10 dynamite sticks that were set to go off yet only one actually ignited.
As a result, success manual authors had to provide failed men with a far broader definition of what constituted a self-made man.
Stanley was a self-made man who raised himself from poverty to success through his technical skills.

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