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self-employed

[ self-em-ploid, self- ]

adjective

  1. 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

  1. 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

First recorded in 1945–50

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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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