Not dependent; not contingent or depending on something else; free.
of political bodies; "an autonomous judiciary"; "a sovereign state"
a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them
not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
not contingent
free from external control and constraint; "an independent mind"; "a series of independent judgments"; "fiercely independent individualism"; "an independent republic"
not controlled by a party or interest group
(grammar) 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"
a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)
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"
free from external control and constraint
(of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence
(of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces
