self-sufficiently

English

Etymology

From self-sufficient + -ly.

Adverb

self-sufficiently (comparative more self-sufficiently, superlative most self-sufficiently)

  1. In a self-sufficient manner.
    • 1963 January, “A second chance on brakes”, in Modern Railways, page 1:
      For if what is decided now does not evolve a railway able to compete self-sufficiently in the transport world of the late 1960s, then we may as well resign ourselves to the lingering death of B.R., protracted only to the extent that it can maintain its services on a make-do-and-mend basis.

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