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self-employment

self-employment noun: the act or practice of working for oneself, such as being an independent contractor.

Noun

self-employment (uncountable)

  1. The act or practice of working for oneself, such as being an independent contractor.
    • Self-employment lacks the security of working for a big company, but at least the only idiot boss you will meet is yourself.

self-employment meaning in Tamil

self-employment in Tamil

சுயவேலை, தன்வேலை

Origin of self-employment

From self- + employment.

Questions about self-employment

What does self-employment mean?
Self-employment means the act or practice of working for oneself, such as being an independent contractor.
What is self-employment in Tamil?
Self-employment in Tamil is சுயவேலை, தன்வேலை. See Self-employment meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is self-employment?
Self-employment is a noun.

Words near self-employment in the dictionary

  1. self-embedding
  2. self-emitting
  3. self-employed
  4. self-employee
  5. self-employees
  6. self-employment
  7. self-emptying
  8. self-enclosed
  9. self-encrypting
  10. self-energies
  11. self-energising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: self-employment (page history and authors); self-employment (Tamil 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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