independency
independency

independent


Definition: Meaning of, independent in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ɪndɪˈpɛnd(ə)nt /

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  1. not owned/controlled by something [usually before noun] an independent organization is not owned or controlled by, or does not receive money from, another organization or the government
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  2. fair [usually before noun] an independent organization or person is not involved in a particular situation, and can therefore be trusted to be fair in judging it
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  3. country an independent country is not governed or controlled by another country
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  4. person confident and able to do things by yourself in your own way, without needing help or advice from other people
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  5. person having enough money to live without having to ask for help from other people
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  6. independent study/learning when you study on your own rather than being taught by a teacher
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  7. woman/man etc of independent means someone who has their own income from property, INVESTMENT s etc, so that they do not have to work or depend on anyone else
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  8. separate if one thing is independent of another, the two are not connected, or the second thing does not influence the first
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  9. politician [usually before noun] an independent politician does not belong to a particular party
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Independent


Definition: Meaning of, Independent in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˌɪndɪˈpɛndənt /

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  1. a politician who does not belong to a political party
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Independent used in phrases

  • Commonwealth of Independent States (noun)
    1. an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991
  • Independent State of Papua New Guinea (noun)
    1. a parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea; in 1975 it became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations
  • Independent State of Samoa (noun)
    1. a constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific
  • Independent, the
    1. a serious British newspaper which generally supports LIBERAL political idea. . The same company produces a similar paper on Sundays, called the Independent on Sunday .
  • independent agency (noun)
    1. an agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments
  • independent clause (noun)
    1. a CLAUSE which can make a sentence by itself, for example 'she went home' in the sentence 'She went home because she was tired.' [=  main clause]
  • independent variable (noun)
    1. statistics a variable whose values are independent of changes in the values of other variables
  • law of independent assortment (noun)
    1. each member of a pair of homologous chromosomes separates independently of the members of other pairs so the results are random
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