What does self-employed mean?

Definitions for self-employed
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. freelance, free-lance, self-employedadjective

    working for yourself

Wiktionary

  1. self-employedadjective

    Working for oneself, rather than for an employer.

Wikipedia

  1. self-employed

    Self-employment is the state of working for oneself rather than an employer. Tax authorities will generally view a person as self-employed if the person chooses to be recognised as such or if the person is generating income for which a tax return needs to be filed. In the real world, the critical issue for the tax authorities is not whether a person is engaged in a business activity (called "trading" even when referring to the provision of a service) but whether the activity is profitable and therefore potentially taxable. In other words, the activity of trading is likely to be ignored if no profit is present, so occasional and hobby- or enthusiast-based economic activity is generally ignored by the tax authorities. Self-employed people are usually classified as a sole proprietor (or sole trader), independent contractor, or as a member of a partnership. Self-employed people generally find their own work rather than being provided with work by an employer and instead earn income from a profession, a trade, or a business that they operate. In some countries, such as the United States and the United Kingdom, the authorities are placing more emphasis on clarifying whether an individual is self-employed or engaged in disguised employment, in other words pretending to be in a contractual intra-business relationship to hide what is in fact an employer-employee relationship.

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  1. self-employed

    Self-employed refers to a person who works for themselves instead of an employer, running their own business and taking on all the responsibility for its success or failure. This could involve owning and operating a small business, freelancing, or working as an independent contractor. They often have control over their workload, schedule, and income.

Editors Contribution

  1. self-employed

    To run a business to earn an income.

    My sister was self-employed for a number of years, she loved it and then changed to employment.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 16, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of self-employed in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of self-employed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of self-employed in a Sentence

  1. Henri St. Germaine:

    I'm the guy you probably hate. Born in the States, educated in the UK and now living in Europe. Oh did I mention I'm self employed and travel a lot? And, no I'm not shallow or pretentious, those are just your own preconceived notions about me.

  2. Scott Fowler:

    She really believes she hears the faint cries of an infant. She summons her husband, who is a self-employed grading contractor. He arrives in the area and descends about a 75-foot ravine to find the child alone with a car seat over the bank.

  3. Mike Savage:

    With the new tax law, there's even more incentive for the self-employed entrepreneur to pay themselves less.

  4. Pavel Vidal:

    The self-employed are not going to have it easy in this new beginning due to the complex environment in which they will operate, with few dollars and inputs in the economy, but with the ingenuity of the Cuban and the sophistication of the parallel market, they will be able to take off little by little.

  5. Sandro Reiss:

    We have seen that a large number of our loans go to self-employed people to invest in their own companies.


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