self-supporting

adjective FINANCE

Definition

› earning or having enough money to pay for your activities without receiving financial help from others: The contract requires the project to be self-supporting within five years.

(Definition of self-supporting adjective from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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