From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishself-helpˌself-ˈhelp noun [uncountable] INDEPENDENT PERSONthe use of your own efforts to deal with your problems, instead of depending on other people a shelf of self-help books Our program emphasizes self-help. a self-help group for single parents
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self-help• self-help books• a self-help group• Today she runs her own New Age self-help business, Kismet, employing four staff.• There was a great deal of communal self-help in the Engineering School.• It transforms the police officer from an investigator and enforcer into a catalyst in a process of community self-help.• With a stronger private sector, a more vital ethic of self-help might also emerge.• Organised self-help groups also rely on the beneficial effects of talking and discussion.• There would be no point n even Samuel Smiles's self-help, if all is actually governed by invariable law.• He is aware that what he is involved in now is nothing less than Thatcherite self-help.• His career suggests that he was capable of combining a sense of duty with an urge to self-help.self-help books• She had been reading a lot of self-help books and this was her conclusion.• Good writing often reveals painful truths, said the authors in a panel on self-help books.• Our current top 10 bestsellers include seven self-help books, so Airlift is more our style. 