What does self-financing mean?

self-financing

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.10 in modern English

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present participle and gerund of self-finance

"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."

self-financings (plural)

self-funding

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