self-supporting
adjective
• having the resources to be able to survive without outside assistance.
• "the colonies must be, if nothing else, self-supporting"
Similar:
self-sufficient,
self-sustaining,
self-reliant,
self-standing,
living on one's hump,
self-contained,
independent,
self-made,
autarkic,
autarkical,
• staying up or upright without being supported by something else.
• "arches were originally self-supporting structures"
