Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The condition or quality of being sufficient.
- n. An adequate amount or quantity.
- n. Adequate means to live in modest comfort.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or character of being sufficient; adequacy.
- n. Qualification for any purpose; ability; capacity; efficiency.
- n. Adequate substance or means; enough; abundance; competence; especially, supply equal to wants; ample stock or fund.
- n. Conceit; self-confidence; self-sufficiency.
Wiktionary
- n. Quality or condition of being sufficient.
- n. An adequate amount.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being sufficient, or adequate to the end proposed; adequacy.
- n. Qualification for any purpose; ability; capacity.
- n. Adequate substance or means; competence.
- n. Supply equal to wants; ample stock or fund.
- n. Conceit; self-confidence; self-sufficiency.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose
- n. the quality of being sufficient for the end in view
- n. sufficient resources to provide comfort and meet obligations
Examples
“IBBS: Well, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, AASHTO, has what they call a sufficiency rating index.”
“Otoh, the more sophisticated humans become the less self-sufficiency is an applicable idea.”
“The whole idea of "self sufficiency" is fraught with peril.”
“My frustration with talk of "self-sufficiency" is that we're in an economy that is facing an oxymoronic jobless recovery, when official unemployment is at 10 percent in places doing well and unofficial unemployment -- when you take into account those who have stopped looking for work or those caught up in the war on drugs on account of the dearth of good jobs -- is through the roof.”
“I'd argue the only route to self sufficiency for the individual is self sufficiency from the state.”
“My goodness ... self sufficiency is maybe possible?”
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“Do not misunderstand me: my reference to potential net energy self-sufficiency is not an assertion that we will be self-sufficient in conventional sweet crude oil in this decade.”
“If these funds are used primarily for economic development then, for the first time, economic self-sufficiency is possible.”
“They illustrate, however, that even where self-sufficiency is possible, it is apt to involve the serious drawback of greatly increased cost.”
International Co-operation: Common Action for Common Problems
“Yet it also must be recognized that complete self-sufficiency is beyond attainment for most countries.”
International Co-operation: Common Action for Common Problems
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