Look up: self-help

1. self-help
   [n] - the act of helping or improving yourself without relying on anyone else
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2. self-help
   The action or faculty of providing for oneself without assistance from others Category: Management in the public and private sector
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3. Self-help
   Self`-help' noun The act of aiding one's self, without depending on the aid of others.
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4. Self-help
   Self`-help' noun (Law) The right or fact of redressing or preventing wrongs by one's own action without recourse to legal proceedings, as in self-defense, distress, abatement of a nuisance, etc.
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5. self-help
   noun the act of helping or improving yourself without relying on anyone else
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6. Self-help
   • (n.) The right or fact of redressing or preventing wrongs by one`s own action without recourse to legal proceedings, as in self-defense, distress, abatement of a nuisance, etc. • (n.) The act of aiding one`s self, without depending on the aid of others.
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7. Self-Help
   (n) Self-help is used to identify the actions by which a persons find remedy to his problems without resorting to intervention of court or authorities enforcing law. Example, finding and taking back stolen goods oneself.
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8. self-help
   n. 1) obtaining relief or enforcing one's rights without resorting to legal action, such as repossessing a car when payments have not been made, retrieving borrowed or stolen goods, demanding and receiving payment or abating a nuisance (such as digging a ditch to divert flooding from another's prope...
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9. Self-help
   `Self-help`, or `self-improvement`, is a self-guided improvement<ref name="APA">APA Dictionary of Psychology, 1st ed., Gary R. VandenBos, ed., Washington: American Psychological Association, 2007.-->—economically, intellectually, or emotionally—often with a substant...
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10. Self-help
    (law) `Self-help`, in the sense of a legal doctrine, refers to individuals` implementation of their rights without resorting to legal writ or consultation of higher authority, as where a financial institution repossesses a car on which they hold both the title and a defaulted note. Individual...
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11. Self-Help
    (book) `Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct` was a book published in 1859 by Samuel Smiles. The second edition of 1866 added Perseverance to the subtitle. It has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism". Contents to the second edition: Pre...
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