self-employed

1. 1.

   working for yourself

   Synonymsfreelancefree-lance

Questions about self-employed

What does self-employed mean?

self-employed means "working for yourself".

How many syllables are in self-employed?

self-employed has 3 syllables: sel-f-em-ployed. The stress falls on "sel".

What is another word for self-employed?

Close synonyms include freelance, free-lance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is self-employed a common word?

self-employed is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.