do it yourself

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do it yourself (uncountable)

  1. The practice of doing home improvements and maintenance oneself, rather than employing a professional.
    • 1960 October, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 640:
      THE LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. By O. S. Nock. Ian Allan. 30s.
      One scarcely imagined, for example, that the great steel works at Crewe owed its existence to Sir Richard Moon's penchant for the principle of "Do it yourself", a principle born of a methodical, economical and far-seeing mind.
  2. (often attributive) The habit or approach of doing something for oneself, rather than for example buying a prepared product.
    • 2020, Matt Grimes, Mike Dines, Punk Now!!: Contemporary Perspectives on Punk:
      The relationship between punk's do-it-yourself philosophy and the music industry, along with fashion suppliers,

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