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not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else absolute not contingent unconditional free from external control and constraint; "an independent mind"; "a series of independent judgments"; "fiercely independent individualism"; "an independent republic" autarkic, autonomous, breakaway, commutative, free-living, indie, individual, on one's own(p), self-sufficient, self-supporting, single-handed, strong-minded, unaffiliated, unconditional 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" not controlled by a party or interest group nonpartisan a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics) of political bodies; "an autonomous judiciary"; "a sovereign state" free |
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