Self-financing

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    Financing by oneself, or of a scheme, by itself. uncountable, usually

    "That represented an additional four million journeys - not sufficient to be self-financing. […] If the permanent scheme does not become self-financing through a larger increase in passenger numbers, the costs will be met from the ScotRail budget."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of self-finance form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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self-funding

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"That represented an additional four million journeys - not sufficient to be self-financing. […] If the permanent scheme does not become self-financing through a larger increase in passenger numbers, the costs will be met from the ScotRail budget."

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