| self-employed | |
| —adj | |
| earning one's living in one's own business or through freelance work, rather than as the employee of another | |
| self-em'ployment | |
| —n | |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |