Verb
argue or speak in defense of
Source: WordNetI came from an environment where I needed to succeed. There was no wealth or anything like that in the family. Not that we were paupers, but we had to fend for ourselves. Kids today are not as hungry as I was. They don't understand how tough my generation was. Alan Sugar
There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help. Steve Perry
I can cook really well. I started cooking as a kid, so I can fend for myself in the kitchen and even do a little gourmet action. Ty Pennington
So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, inside these walls of my life. Other people had their own worlds to worry about, and in the end, they had to fend for themselves, just like us. Markus Zusak
We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food. Gordon Brown
The overriding crucial implication of the structural adjustment policies was that the villagers would have to fend for themselves in all conceivable respects. Lars Rudebeck