self-employed person
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3.6
- noun
- /sɛlf ɪmˈplɔɪd ˈpɜrsən/
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trabajador autónomo
- Being a self-employed person often means juggling multiple projects from different clients at once.
Whereas an employee, you have a job as a self-employed person, you just simply own your job.
- Whereas an employee, you have a job as a self-employed person, you just simply own your job.
- Now under the PUA, the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Program, self-employed people can apply.
- Oh, I remember that like and it's because everyone now is feeling what it feels like to be a self-employed person who works mostly online.
- The first retirement account that I've ever set up was a self-employed persons IRA, basically a Sep IRA.
Examples
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Except both the self-employed person and the professional have one tiny problem.
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It's great to have a DIY attitude, but there's a world of difference between doing your taxes as an employee and doing your taxes as a self-employed person.
Blog text (13) -
But most self-employed people work really long and really hard in order to get to that point.
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It's interesting how you mentioned that once you became self-employed, more self-employed people turned up around you.
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I'm proud of what we've done so far, but I know that many self-employed people are deeply anxious about the support available for them.
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As a small business owner or self-employed person, one of the easiest ways to keep Uncle Sam off your back and out of your life is to file your forms, payments, and other paperwork on time.
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Self-employed persons are both economically self-reliant and independent of government, and they are also economically vulnerable in an unstable economy.
Academic text (1992) -
The UNLU members appear to be relatively youthful and educated, drawn widely from lower and middle social strata, with a significant number of professionals and self-employed persons.
Academic text (1993) -
As a self-employed person, she has the freedom to choose her clients and set her own hours.
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Many self-employed people struggle to find health insurance due to their independent status.
Synonyms
354
3.9
A person or company hired to do work for others under an agreement
39
4.8
A person who owns a business or building
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3.9
A person who works for different clients and gets paid per job
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4.2
A writer or artist who works for different employers without a long contract
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3.8
A person who works for different clients, not in a permanent job
A person who sells their work to different companies or people without a long contract
Antonyms
How Independent
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is directly compositional: 'self-employed' means operating one's own business and combined with 'person' yields 'a person who works for themselves.' This adjective+noun pattern is regular and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can reliably infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Self-employed person comes from putting together self (you alone) and employed (doing work), giving a clear image of someone who is their own boss. That's why it means 'a person who works for themselves'.