Wiktionary:Word of the day/2021/December 3

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Word of the day
for December 3
under one's own steam prepositional phrase
  1. (nautical, rail transport) Of the movement of a locomotive or a watercraft: by means of the power of its own engines (originally steam engines), rather than pulled or pushed by another vehicle.
  2. (idiomatic, figuratively)
    1. Using one's own resources; independently, unaided.
    2. At one's own initiative; of one's own accord, unbidden, unprompted.

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