1Relating to or denoting something which limits itself.
自我限制的，尤指
commodity speculation is self-limiting
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For the rest of us, self-limiting commoners, join me in the self-conversion process.
The reason that the minimum wage is problematic is that it is also self-limiting, only because companies can't pay employees less than the minimum wage, what generally gets limited is the number of jobs.
That guarantees that the story is eventually self-limiting.
Are you in fact a self-limiting company consigning yourself to being eternally small because of the high environmental standards you expect?
The process is self-limiting and the increasing levels of alcohol kill off the yeast.
Instead of being self-limiting, the old-style colloquial schoolboy language used gives an intensity of expression in a simple and precise way.
Press baron demagoguery, however unfair, reflected the biases and passions of specific men, and was thus self-limiting.
Imagine an environment where you receive acceptance without judgement and break from self-limiting behaviour.
1.1Medicine (of a condition) ultimately resolving itself without treatment.
〔医〕（病况）自限的
money is wasted on prescriptions for self-limiting illnesses
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Uncomplicated cases of cholera are self-limiting in nature and the patient recovers within three to six days.
No one explained to them the scientific and practical gains that might come from knowing more about the self-limiting and self-correcting nature of syphilis so as to be able to evaluate the power of early therapeutic interventions.
In most patients it is self-limiting and a definite cause cannot be found.
A spokesperson said the virus seemed to be self-limiting and the student suspected of having meningitis underwent the full range of laboratory tests for the illness.
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome is a self-limiting condition once the offending agent has been discontinued.
2(in psychology) preventing the development or expression of the self.
（心理学）自我限制的
low self-esteem comes from the self-limiting beliefs we have about our bodies
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When this happens, the subliminal beliefs that formerly were self-limiting begin to change.
Definition of self-limiting in US English:
self-limiting
adjective
1Relating to or denoting something which limits itself.
自我限制的，尤指
commodity speculation is self-limiting
Example sentencesExamples
Press baron demagoguery, however unfair, reflected the biases and passions of specific men, and was thus self-limiting.
For the rest of us, self-limiting commoners, join me in the self-conversion process.
Are you in fact a self-limiting company consigning yourself to being eternally small because of the high environmental standards you expect?
The process is self-limiting and the increasing levels of alcohol kill off the yeast.
Instead of being self-limiting, the old-style colloquial schoolboy language used gives an intensity of expression in a simple and precise way.
Imagine an environment where you receive acceptance without judgement and break from self-limiting behaviour.
The reason that the minimum wage is problematic is that it is also self-limiting, only because companies can't pay employees less than the minimum wage, what generally gets limited is the number of jobs.
That guarantees that the story is eventually self-limiting.
1.1Medicine (of a condition) ultimately resolving itself without treatment.
〔医〕（病况）自限的
money is wasted on prescriptions for self-limiting illnesses
Example sentencesExamples
No one explained to them the scientific and practical gains that might come from knowing more about the self-limiting and self-correcting nature of syphilis so as to be able to evaluate the power of early therapeutic interventions.
A spokesperson said the virus seemed to be self-limiting and the student suspected of having meningitis underwent the full range of laboratory tests for the illness.
In most patients it is self-limiting and a definite cause cannot be found.
Uncomplicated cases of cholera are self-limiting in nature and the patient recovers within three to six days.
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome is a self-limiting condition once the offending agent has been discontinued.
2(in psychology) preventing the development or expression of the self.
（心理学）自我限制的
low self-esteem comes from the self-limiting beliefs we have about our bodies
Example sentencesExamples
When this happens, the subliminal beliefs that formerly were self-limiting begin to change.