independent contractor
noun
A person or company providing a service or goods on a contractual basis, and not regarded as the legal responsibility of those with whom the contract is made, or formally accorded employee status.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in The New York Times.
- generating company
- generating function
- generating plant
- generating station
- generating surface
- generation
- generational
- generationally
- generation-conscious
- generation gap
- generationism
- Generation Rent
- generation ship
- generation-skipping tax
- Generation X
- Generation Xer
- Generation Y
- Generation Yer
- generative
- generative cell
- generative grammar
- generatively
- generativeness
- generative-transformational
- generativism