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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
self-employed
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 self-employed people do.
▪ They explained to her that, yes, they regarded self-employed people as higher credit risks than employees.
▪ It is a regular, tax-free cash payment for working people with children, self-employed people and lone parents.
▪ They also said they were particularly suspicious of self-employed people who had been in business for less than five years.
▪ Those services include self-employed people providing labour-only, for example, holiday-relief milking.
▪ This cost two self-employed people half a day.
person
▪ This applies particularly to self-employed persons.
▪ Al. most every client arrangement for a self-employed person will be unique.
▪ Class 2 and Class 4 contributions are paid by self-employed persons who are entitled to all contributory benefits except unemployment benefits.
▪ We have not met a successful self-employed person who goes on vacation.
▪ Any expenses incurred as part of a job, or as a self-employed person, providing the necessary receipts are kept.
▪ The self-employed person may, of course, himself have duties under this Article.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He is a self-employed music teacher.
▪ I've been self-employed for over 10 years.
▪ Kerry is a self-employed graphic designer.
▪ Martin is a self-employed builder.
▪ Most fashion models are self-employed, and find work through agencies.
▪ The government gives generous tax allowances to the self-employed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As from July 1988, however, the rules for self-employed pensions were also altered to bring them in line with personal pensions.
▪ Homeowners and mortgage payers may borrow without proof of earnings - including self-employed.
▪ The self-employed businessman brings his son to the Discovery Zone in West Hills almost daily.
▪ The future employee-development program is going to be much more like a program for self-employed entrepreneurs than a program for jobholders.
▪ The paper also considers the possibility that the self-employed should prepare tax accounts for the tax year.
▪ This applies particularly to self-employed persons.
▪ This is a year when you could realise the attractions of being self-employed.
▪ You can bounce ideas off them and benefit from their expertise, as they have often been self-employed themselves.
Wiktionary
self-employed

a. working for oneself, rather than for an employer.

WordNet
self-employed

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.