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Answer for the clue "Working for oneself only ", 13 letters:
self-employed

Word definitions for self-employed in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. working for oneself, rather than for an employer.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN people ▪ In addition, he says, a number of self-employed people and staff on contract work also have difficulty in getting credit. ▪ What you have to begin doing before that happens is to market your services as ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. working for yourself [syn: freelance ] [ant: salaried ]

Usage examples of self-employed.

The jury included a nurse, three housewives, a building contractor, two factory workers, an air force airman, a bookkeeper, a speech pathologist, a state highway department worker, and a self-employed businessman.

There is also a big before and after photo, on the left a young man in chinos who a market researcher might put in the B2 socio-economic group, self-employed graphic designer or something similar, and on the right the young man is now done up as a woman from a Bradford council estate who has had a hard life on account of her daughter being pregnant and on crack and who sings at the Trades and Labour Club on Fridays to keep her spirits up.

Since I'm self-employed, I pay my disability insurance before I even pay my rent.

A self-employed person's pension scheme, a life-assurance poicy, a few thousand of savings.

He described himself as a self-employed tree surgeon, but no record of this profession had been found on the Gulf Coast for the past five years.

The Welfare State didn't pay unemployment benefits to the self-employed, as all jockeys remembered every snow-bound winter.

Sheltered between the Wallowa Mountains to the west and the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area to the east, Enterprise, population 1,900, is a wonderful place to live, but only if one is self-employed, working for the county or the city, or serving the needs of the residents.