"fend for oneself" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "fends for oneself",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fending for oneself",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fended for oneself",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fended for oneself",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "kind": "other",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "After her mother passed away, she had to learn to fend for herself.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 26",
          "text": "Clara's father, a trollish ne'er-do-well who spent most of his time in brothels and saloons, would disappear for days and weeks at a stretch, leaving Clara and her mother to fend for themselves.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take care of oneself without help."
      ],
      "id": "en-fend_for_oneself-en-verb-kwAeg5Bk",
      "links": [
        [
          "take care",
          "take care"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to take care of oneself without help",
          "word": "zijn eigen boontjes doppen"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to take care of oneself without help",
          "word": "huolehtia itsestään"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to take care of oneself without help",
          "word": "pitää huolta itsestään"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to take care of oneself without help",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "radzić sobie"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to take care of oneself without help",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "poradzić sobie"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to take care of oneself without help",
          "word": "buscarse la vida"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fend for oneself"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fends for oneself",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fending for oneself",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fended for oneself",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fended for oneself",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "Terms with Dutch translations",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "After her mother passed away, she had to learn to fend for herself.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 26",
          "text": "Clara's father, a trollish ne'er-do-well who spent most of his time in brothels and saloons, would disappear for days and weeks at a stretch, leaving Clara and her mother to fend for themselves.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take care of oneself without help."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "take care",
          "take care"
        ]
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    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to take care of oneself without help",
      "word": "zijn eigen boontjes doppen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to take care of oneself without help",
      "word": "huolehtia itsestään"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to take care of oneself without help",
      "word": "pitää huolta itsestään"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to take care of oneself without help",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "radzić sobie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to take care of oneself without help",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "poradzić sobie"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to take care of oneself without help",
      "word": "buscarse la vida"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fend for oneself"
}