self-employed
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3.4
- adjective
- /ˌsɛlfɪmˈplɔɪd/
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autónomo
- If you are self-employed, you must manage your own taxes and health insurance.
- self-employed applicators
- self-employed entrepreneurs
- self-employed workers
She is the founder of India's self-employed women's Association.
- She is the founder of India's self-employed women's Association.
- But when you're self-employed, you're responsible for all of it.
- And a lot of that is like I'm not used to being self-employed for this long period of time.
- The thing is with boxing is, is you're self-employed.
- It's been quite a change to switch from academia to being self-employed.
- It lets you invest in real estate much easier than if you're self-employed.
- So my mum trained to be a financial advisor so that she could be self-employed as we called it.
- And it's a podcast in German though, about writing, about building stuff, about being self-employed in the creative fields.
- It changed who can benefit from them and broadened the the scope to gig workers and self-employed folks.
- There was only two people out of the entire cast when I went on who weren't either unemployed or self-employed.
Examples
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I'm self-employed right now.
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So to support those who work for themselves, today I'm announcing a new self-employed income support scheme.
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It's the benefit of being self-employed, John.
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Were you self-employed or in the armed services?
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Meanwhile, the self-employed have never been represented strongly on this issue by their pressure groups.
Academic text (1991) -
And since 1991, the number of Americans who are self-employed has dropped by more than 20%.
Blog text (13) -
The differences remain quite large even if the self-employed were earning the maximum amount of the national pension.
Academic text (1991) -
This budget also fell far short of what was needed to support the self-employed and freelancers.
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I'm self-employed, and this gentleman is my neighbour.
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The point is, it's up to me; that's the advantage of being self-employed.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
99
3.8
Working for different clients, not in a permanent job
Antonyms
How Independent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Self-employed comes from self meaning 'by yourself' and employ meaning 'to give work', as in employee and employer. So a self-employed person gives work to themselves and works for their own business, not for another employer.