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  2. Independent contracting in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The distinction between independent contractor and employee is an important one in the United States, as the costs for business owners to maintain employees are significantly higher than the costs associated with hiring independent contractors, due to federal and state requirements for employers to pay FICA (Social Security and Medicare taxes) and unemployment taxes on received income for ...

  3. Misclassification of employees as independent contractors

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    This was codified in revenue ruling 87–41, and is generally called "the twenty factor test". [3] [4] By contrast, if the worker controls the means and method of achieving the required results, leaving the employer with the right only to define the desired result, they are correctly classified as an independent contractor.

  4. Contingent work - Wikipedia

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    Contingent work, casual work, gig work or contract work, is an employment relationship with limited job security, payment on a piece work basis, typically part-time (typically with variable hours) that is considered non-permanent.

  5. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.

  6. Independent contractor (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    An Independent contractor is a type of worker. Independent contractor may also refer to: Independent contracting in the United States; Independent Contractors Australia; Misclassification of employees as independent contractors

  7. Glossary of construction cost estimating - Wikipedia

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    A Allocation of costs is the transfer of costs from one cost item to one or more other cost items. Allowance - a value in an estimate to cover the cost of known but not yet fully defined work. As-sold estimate - the estimate which matches the agreed items and price for the project scope. B Basis of estimate (BOE) - a document which describes the scope basis, pricing basis, methods ...

  8. Employment - Wikipedia

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    Employment is a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services. Usually based on a contract, one party, the employer, which might be a corporation, a not-for-profit organization, a co-operative, or any other entity, pays the other, the employee, in return for carrying out assigned work. [1]

  9. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    A contronym is a word with two opposite meanings. For example, the word original can mean "authentic, traditional", or "novel, never done before". This feature is also called enantiosemy, [1] [2] enantionymy (enantio-means "opposite"), antilogy or autoantonymy.