Definition of "self-made"

self-made

adjective
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1. (of a person) Having achieved success by one's own efforts, with little to no support from family members and others.
  Quotations
  There was I a dragoon, roving, unsettled, not self-made like him, but self-unmade—all my earlier advantages thrown away, all my little learning unlearnt, nothing picked up but what unfitted me for most things that I could think of.
  1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter LV, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, page 531
  “These were people who were self-made, and self-made people made up their own words,” Mr. Sokolowski added.
  2021 November 9, Max Harrison-Caldwell, quoting Peter Sokolowski, “Words Full of Sound and Fury”, in The New York Times‎
2. (of a thing) Made by oneself instead of bought or taken over.
  Quotations
  Originally each school was bound only by self-made rules.
  1905, Fielding Yost, Football for Player and Spectator