Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of feeding one's self or itself; keeping up automatically a supply of anything of which there is a constant consumption, waste, use, or application for some purpose: as, a self-feeding boiler, furnace, printing-press, etc.
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Examples
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Cortical control of a prosthetic arm for self-feeding.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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Are markets stuck in an irrational cycle of self-feeding fear?
Mohamed A. El-Erian: An Unsettling Trifecta for Market Contagion Mohamed A. El-Erian 2011
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As long as there is an incremental buyer, prices keep going up, but at some point everybody who wants to buy a house has bought a house, so when an incremental buyer is not there, the prices start declining and then it becomes self-feeding.
Vitaliy N. Katsenelson: Shadow Over Asia Vitaliy N. Katsenelson 2010
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He added that the world's central banks had a "very solid unity of purpose" to stop such "second-round" effects, in which broad swathes of workers demand higher wages to offset higher prices for food, energy and other products, starting a self-feeding inflationary cycle.
Trichet: Commodities' Fall 'Healthy' Geoffrey T. Smith 2011
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As long as there is an incremental buyer, prices keep going up, but at some point everybody who wants to buy a house has bought a house, so when an incremental buyer is not there, the prices start declining and then it becomes self-feeding.
Vitaliy N. Katsenelson: Shadow Over Asia Vitaliy N. Katsenelson 2010
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As long as there is an incremental buyer, prices keep going up, but at some point everybody who wants to buy a house has bought a house, so when an incremental buyer is not there, the prices start declining and then it becomes self-feeding.
Vitaliy N. Katsenelson: Shadow Over Asia Vitaliy N. Katsenelson 2010
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In the Daily Telegraph, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard warned that the EU is forcing a "final catharsis" on Greece:The country appears to be in a self-feeding downward spiral that is playing havoc with budget targets, leaving Greece with a Sisyphean task of ever deeper cuts.
Eurozone crisis live: Greek president attacks Germany as bailout deadline moves to Monday 2012
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Cortical control of a prosthetic arm for self-feeding.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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The downgrades emphasize the self-feeding downward financial cycle in the euro area.
Spain and Italy Hit by Downgrades Stephen Fidler 2011
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As long as there is an incremental buyer, prices keep going up, but at some point everybody who wants to buy a house has bought a house, so when an incremental buyer is not there, the prices start declining and then it becomes self-feeding.
Vitaliy N. Katsenelson: Shadow Over Asia Vitaliy N. Katsenelson 2010
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