Synonym: self-reliant, dependent. Similar words: independence, dependent, depending, tendency, respondent, correspondent, index, reminder. Meaning: [‚ɪndɪ'pendənt] 
n. 1. a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics) 2. a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them. adj. 1. free from external control and constraint 2. not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else 3. (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces 4. not contingent 5. (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence 6. not controlled by a party or interest group.
n. 1. a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics) 2. a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them. adj. 1. free from external control and constraint 2. not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else 3. (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces 4. not contingent 5. (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence 6. not controlled by a party or interest group. 
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