self-supporting
🇬🇧 UK/'selfsə'pɔ:tiŋ/🇺🇸 US/'selfsә'pɔ:tiŋ/
Definitions
adj.
Able to support oneself financially or structurally without outside assistance
自立的,自给的,自营的
🧩 Root Breakdown
Root-derivedCommon Collocations
- 1.fully self-supporting完全自立的
- 2.financially self-supporting经济上自给自足的
- 3.self-supporting structure自承重结构
- 4.[become self-supporting]实现自立
Example Sentences
- 1.
By age 22, she was fully self-supporting, paying her own rent and tuition fees.
- 2.
The nonprofit organization became self-supporting through product sales and community donations.
- 3.
Engineers designed a self-supporting roof structure that requires no interior columns.