self-employedadjective
uk/ˌself.ɪmˈplɔɪd/us/ˌself.ɪmˈplɔɪd/not working for an employer but finding work for yourself or having your own business:
a self-employed roofer
Do you pay less tax if you're self-employed?
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Types of employment
- administrative
- administrative assistant
- at the coalface idiom
- backroom boys
- blue-collar
- clerk
- honorary
- lackey
- managerial
- menial
- NEET
- off-duty
- probation
- professionally
- short time
- skilled
- slave labour
- subcontractor
- sweated
- wilderness
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self-employed
noun [ plural ] ukus
They run an advice centre for the self-employed.
self-employment
noun [ U ] uk/ˌself.ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/us/ˌself.ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/