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What does self-made mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word self-made? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of a person, having achieved success by one's own efforts.
  2. Of a thing, made by oneself instead of bought or taken over.
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A typical resident of the floating apartment ship is aged between 50 and 60 with a self-made fortune.
As a result, success manual authors had to provide failed men with a far broader definition of what constituted a self-made man.
An autopoietic system is basically a self-made and self-sustaining ensemble.
He told me that the self-made bomb looked like about 10 dynamite sticks that were set to go off yet only one actually ignited.
Stanley was a self-made man who raised himself from poverty to success through his technical skills.
He flees to an abandoned lighthouse with the hopes of starting over, creating his own self-made, independent, and organic society.

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