📖 Определения и значения для слова independent
📒 having its own government
- an independent state/nation/country
- the newly independent republics of Central Asia in the 1990s
- Mozambique became independent in 1975.
📒 confident and free to do things without needing help from other people
- Going away to college has made me much more independent.
- She's a very independent-minded young woman.
- Many disabled people are fiercely independent.
📒 having or earning enough money so that you do not have to rely on somebody else for help
- independent of somebody/something It was important to me to be financially independent of my parents.
- a man of independent means (= with an income that he does not earn by working)
📒 done or given by somebody who is not involved in a situation and so is able to judge it fairly
- an independent inquiry/review/investigation
- an independent commission/body/panel
- an independent adviser/consultant/expert
📒 not connected with or influenced by something; not connected with each other
- independent of somebody/something The police force should be independent of direct government control.
- Two independent research bodies reached the same conclusions.
- The results were obtained from four independent experiments.
📒 supported by private money rather than government money
- independent television
- the independent sector
📒 not employed or controlled by a company; not created by a big company
- She was hired to do the work as an independent contractor.
- Farmers operate as independent producers in the sense of working for themselves and running their own business.
- a low-budget independent film
📒 not representing or belonging to a particular political party
- an independent candidate