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self-employed
[ self-em-ploid, self- ]
adjective
- earning one's living directly from one's own profession or business, as a freelance writer or artist, rather than as an employee earning salary or commission from another.
self-employed
adjective
- earning one's living in one's own business or through freelance work, rather than as the employee of another
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Derived Forms
- ˌself-emˈployment, noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of self-employed1
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Example Sentences
According to the Freelancers Union, nearly one in three working Americans is now self-employed.
More than half of the working uninsured are either self-employed or work in firms with fewer than 50 workers.
They turned out to be similarly self-employed in the arts: a painter, a playwright, a TV producer, and a fellow author.
I'm self-employed, I max out my 401k, and have a nice emergency fund.
Because they're self-employed, however, they have a tough time finding insurance.
I worked for the railroad 15 years and was a self-employed builder, as well as—on the side.
You are presently self-employed in Fort Worth, is that correct?
I am a financial consultant, self-employed, and I am senior officer in several corporations.
The self-employed laborer earns wages in the broad economic sense.
The wages of self-employed labor are often simply the value of the material product it secures by exchange.
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