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Meaning of self-perpetuating | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

Causing itself to continue to exist.

Examples

“The committee was self-perpetuating: all it did was hold a meeting to decide when the next meeting was, and consume funds to do so.”
“It's a self-perpetuating error, now that we've made it, we can't fix it without breaking things that depend on it.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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