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self-sufficient collapse: able to provide for your own needs without help from others; "a self-sufficing economic unit"

mystique collapse: an aura of heightened value or interest or meaning surrounding a person or thing

population collapse: the act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"; (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"; a group of organisms of the same species populating a given area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"; the people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"; the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.); "people come and go, but the population of this town has remained approximately constant for the past decade"; "the African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasing"

abject collapse: showing humiliation or submissiveness; "an abject apology"; of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick"; most unfortunate or miserable; "the most abject slaves joined in the revolt"; "abject poverty"; showing utter resignation or hopelessness; "abject surrender"

bigoted collapse: blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion and intolerant toward others; "a bigoted person"; "an outrageously bigoted point of view"

stipend collapse: a sum of money allotted on a regular basis; usually for some specific purpose

spotlight collapse: a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer; illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater

price support collapse: a government subsidy used to maintain prices at a certain level

Medicaid collapse: health care for the needy; a federally and state-funded program

Medicare collapse: health care for the aged; a federally administered system of health insurance available to persons aged 65 and over

provincial collapse: (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order; "the general of the Jesuits receives monthly reports from the provincials"; characteristic of the provinces or their people; "deeply provincial and conformist"; "in that well-educated company I felt uncomfortably provincial"; "narrow provincial attitudes"; of or associated with a province; "provincial government"

kinetic collapse: characterized by motion; "modern dance has been called kinetic pantomime"; relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces associated therewith; "kinetic energy"

scholarship collapse: financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit

nation collapse: the people who live in a nation or country; "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him"; a federation of tribes (especially native American tribes); "the Shawnee nation"; United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)

write up collapse: bring to public notice by writing, with praise or condemnation; "The New York Times wrote him up last week"; "Did your boss write you up?"

coltish collapse: given to merry frolicking; "frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes"

waggish collapse: witty or joking; "Muskrat Castle as the house has been facetiously named by some waggish officer"- James Fenimore Cooper

plunder collapse: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners"

closed collapse: not open or affording passage or access; "the many closed streets made travel difficult"; "our neighbors peeped from behind closed curtains"; used especially of mouth or eyes; "he sat quietly with closed eyes"; "his eyes were shut against the sunlight"; blocked against entry; "a closed porch"; (set theory) of an interval that contains both its endpoints; not having an open mind; "a closed mind unreceptive to new ideas"; not open to the general public; "a closed meeting"; with shutters closed

point of view collapse: the spatial property of the position from which something is observed; a mental position from which things are viewed; "we should consider this problem from the viewpoint of the Russians"; "teaching history gave him a special point of view toward current events"

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