INDEPENDENT





Definition:

  1. [noun] a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)
    Synonyms: mugwump, fencesitter

  2. [noun] a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them
    Synonyms: freelance, self-employed person

  3. [adjective] free from external control and constraint; "an independent mind"; "a series of independent judgments"; "fiercely independent individualism"; "an independent republic"

  4. [adjective] not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else

  5. [adjective] of political bodies; "an autonomous judiciary"; "a sovereign state"
    Synonyms: autonomous, self-governing, sovereign

  6. [adjective] not contingent

  7. [adjective] of a clause; able to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; "the main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb"
    Synonyms: main

  8. [adjective] not controlled by a party or interest group

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