adjective
not working for an employer but finding work for yourself or having your own business:
a self-employed builder
Do you pay less tax if you're self-employed?
Ms. Beattie, the truck chaser, said she and her friends, all in or near their 40s, have made the Wii a central part of their social time.
“We used to play poker,” she said. “Now we have Wii parties.” Because she’s self-employed, Ms. Beattie has continued to hunt for Wiis for her friends who have less flexibility at work: “They can’t leave their job when the U.P.S. truck comes.”
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plural noun
They run an advice centre for the self-employed.
self-employment Show phonetics
noun [U]
(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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