self-employed
self-employed adjective: working for oneself, rather than for an employer.
Adjective
self-employed (not comparable)
- Working for oneself, rather than for an employer.
- Police said Ko Sasaki, of no fixed address and who claims to be self-employed, took two packs of condoms, worth about 2,000 yen, and tried to leave the store without paying for them.2023, Japan Today, 85-year-old man arrested for stealing condoms from convenience store
self-employed meaning in Malayalam and Kannada
self-employed in Malayalam
- freelance, independent, casual
- സ്വയംതൊഴിൽ ചെയ്യുന്ന, സ്വതന്ത്രമായി തൊഴിൽ ചെയ്യുന്ന, സ്വയം തൊഴിൽ തേടുന്ന, തനതുസംരംഭകനായ, സ്ഥിരം ശമ്പളത്തിനല്ലാതെ തൊഴിൽചെയ്യുന്ന, ആരോടും ബാദ്ധ്യതയില്ലാത്ത
self-employed in Kannada
- ಸ್ವಂತ ಉದ್ಯೋಗ ಮಾಡುವ
Origin of self-employed
From self- + employed.
Questions about self-employed
- What does self-employed mean?
- Self-employed means working for oneself, rather than for an employer.
- What is self-employed in Malayalam?
- Self-employed in Malayalam is സ്വയംതൊഴിൽ ചെയ്യുന്ന, സ്വതന്ത്രമായി തൊഴിൽ ചെയ്യുന്ന, സ്വയം തൊഴിൽ തേടുന്ന. See Self-employed meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is self-employed?
- Self-employed is an adjective.
Words near self-employed in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: self-employed (page history and authors); self-employed (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); self-employed (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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