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self-employed

/self-em-ploid, self-/US // ˈsɛlf ɛmˈplɔɪd, ˌsɛlf- //

自营职业者,自营职业,自由职业者,自雇人士

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : earning one's living directly from one's own profession or business, as a freelance writer or artist, rather than as an employee earning salary or commission from another.

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Examples

  • We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.

  • Stephanie Giorgio, a classical musician, credits The Class for helping her cope with anxiety, focus, fear, and self-doubt.

  • For someone with anorexia, self-starvation makes them feel better.

  • Models in Israel will have to maintain a BMI of 18.5 or higher if they want to stay employed.

  • I went into the audition as Fericito, the Venezuelan percussionist, and then I did a self-defense expert.

  • The Duchess had also a tent for their sick men; so that we had a small town of our own here, and every body employed.

  • Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

  • Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.

  • At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.

  • But to wave this discourse of Heathens, how many self-contradicting principles are there held among Christians?