Definition of Self-employed

1. Adjective. Working for yourself.

Exact synonyms: Free-lance, Freelance
Derivative terms: Freelance
Antonyms: Salaried

Definition of Self-employed

1. Adjective. Working for oneself, rather than for an employer. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-employed

self-disgust
self-distance
self-distrust
self-doubt
self-doubts
self-drilling screw
self-drive
self-dual
self-educated
self-education
self-effacement
self-effacing
self-effacingly
self-effacingness
self-efficacy
self-employed (current term)
self-employed person
self-employment
self-enclosed
self-esteem
self-evaluation programs
self-evidence
self-evidency
self-evident
self-evident truth
self-evidently
self-examination
self-examining
self-excitation
self-existence

Literary usage of Self-employed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Maintaining Budgetary Discipline: Spending and Revenue Options edited by Sherry Snyder (1999)
"The conference committee said that the law was "designed to achieve parity between employees and the self-employed" beginning in 1990. ..."

2. Health Security: The President's Report to the American People by Domestic Policy Council (U. S.) (1993)
"She is self-employed with an income of $40000 a year. ... Because she is self- employed, she was only able to deduct 25% of her $5000 premium or $1250 of ..."

3. China: Progress and Reform Challenges by (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope (2003)
"Number of employees in private enterprises and self-employed individuals by sector, 2000 Source: National Bureau of ..."

4. General Explanation of Tax Legislation Enacted in 1998: Report of the Joint edited by William Roth, Bill Archer (2000)
"B. Increase Deduction for Health Insurance Expenses of Self-Employed Individuals (sec. 2002 of the Act and sec. 162(1) of the Code) Present and Prior Law ..."

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