Existing without outside assistance or dependence on others.
self-standing, separately financed Crime Units
a self-standing research project
Example sentencesExamples
Given the culture of the College and the student body, it's perhaps surprising that we have never offered a formal, self-standing program in environmental science or environmental studies.
Now, every business school includes ethics and social responsibility in its curriculum, either as self-standing courses or woven into other coursework.
The Web is by its nature hyperlinked, not self-standing.
The Master of Arts (MA) degree in the department is a self-standing degree, but may also serve as preparation for the research degrees of MPhil and PhD.
I am not clear as to the target of the article: is it an outline for priests to draw on for sermons or a self-standing exposition of the Church's teaching for lay people to read?
The first was designed as a self-standing piece, and can be played separately, but they are intended to be played one after the other.
The University offers language classes in French, German or Spanish for all students, and these can be taken as a self-standing programme of study.
Each novel is self-standing, although they also raise larger questions which are never answered.
He died in 1215, without having enjoyed any discernible success in establishing a self-standing Zen institution.
He imitated Homer not only in metre but also in features of style: the use of identifying epithets and stylized repetition, for instance, and the positioning of powerful, self-standing, similes at key points in the narrative.
Synonyms
self-sufficient, self-supporting, self-sustaining, self-reliant, able to stand on one's own two feet