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    Synonyms and Definitions

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    independent example sentences

    independent


    1. While we grow old and even if we live an independent life, there are occasions when somebody else has to look after our needs


    2. In his realm everything is absolute quite independent of anything else


    3. ‘She’s an independent woman!’


    4. She has been independent for a long time, that’s plain to see, and desperately protective of her independence too


    5. ‘Only, I’m missing that argumentative, independent woman who’s taken up residence at the other end of my house


    6. Even when set on their sassiest however, they cannot show the independent will that Shibet could, that made love with her so much more interesting than love with this collection of surface renderings and response data bases


    7. They are not entirely without awareness, just without much in the way of independent wills


    8. We’re too independent to be communal as God is communal


    9. My Now and then the people are always in need of great friends we are now an independent nation and our destiny leaders who show the way forward in action and know what is henceforward in our own hands


    10. that from now on, we are no more a colonial but a free and independent people

    11. Strong independent women always made Jerry nervous


    12. I’d never been close to my mother, she’d never wanted it … so I had become independent and, to some extent, isolated within myself as a result


    13. Would he really be a second choice? He was much older and more independent that Alan, but as he passed the jug a fourth time she was reminded that he might not be serious enough for many parts of life


    14. There are times when being an independent, capable female is a bit of a bugger!


    15. We’ll be the only ones out of all of them who have independent means”


    16. In this febrile atmosphere of ratings wars and popular novelty, an executive producer at a small independent production company came up with a marvellous new idea


    17. We are independent now, but the


    18. She hasn’t been dependent on me financially for some years – she earns more than I do anyway – and when she pulled the plug on our marriage she insisted on being financially independent, seeing it as some sort of compensation for me if I didn’t have to maintain her


    19. " For larger grants - those over $300,000 a year - an audit by a private, independent outside legal or accounting firm is required


    20. Independent thought has never been produced by the majority

    21. find the taste that is independent the taste of a weirdo


    22. only ones out of all of them who have independent means”


    23. Following that interesting but tiring job, I tackled a few independent businesses that failed


    24. I love you as a grown and independent woman, I loved Tdeshi as a child, a child who needed to be protected and nurtured, Leand’s daughter


    25. Kulai’s mother was quite independent now and had a career as a janitorial inspector in a large retail operation on Second Canal and Gazzizon Locks


    26. 'Was this really something he wanted to pursue? Do I actually have so little contact with what he describes as 'conscience'? Am I just a mass of 'I's, each pulling this way and that? Don't I have my own independent will? Do I actually have possibilities I should have, but don't see right now? Do I even trust this strange old man anyway? I wonder who he is and where did he come from? He reminds me of an old guy I worked with at that Government contracting job


    27. “Not quite,” he replied slowly, “The concept of an independent


    28. We have two independent witnesses that this is how it occurred, sir


    29. The Financial Security Council was another group that had undertaken independent investigations


    30. It’s a great relief knowing that he is in safe hands – the warden at the property is a very practical lady who watches over her ‘charges’ without impinging on their independence and Dad is fiercely independent

    31. We wanted to stay independent as a Directorate at Fort Sam Houston but under the Air Force joint-base concept, higher-ups decided that we would become part of J3/J5


    32. An independent manufacturer, who has stock enough both to purchase materials, and to maintain himself till he can carry his work to market, should gain both the wages of a journeyman who works under a master, and the


    33. When an independent workman, such as a weaver or shoemaker, has got more stock than what is sufficient to purchase the materials of his own work, and to maintain himself till he can dispose of it, he naturally employs one or more journeymen with the surplus, in order to make a profit by their work


    34. In dear years, too, poor independent workmen frequently consume the little stock with which they had used to supply themselves with the materials of their work, and are obliged to become journeymen for subsistence


    35. A poor independent workman will generally be more industrious than even a journeyman who works by the piece


    36. The one, in his separate independent state, is less liable to the temptations of bad company, which, in large manufactories, so frequently ruin the morals of the other


    37. The superiority of the independent workman over those servants who are hired by the month or by the year, and whose wages and maintenance are the same, whether they do much or do little, is likely to be still greater


    38. Cheap years tend to increase the proportion of independent workmen to journeymen and servants of all kinds, and dear years to diminish it


    39. If he did he'd be turning independent on an employer's case and would never get work as a case agent in Zhlindu again, he'd have to make all his own sales from then on


    40. ‘You are a guest at Biggleswich Independent coeducational boarding school, set in the grounds of the fortified Abbey of Lilysworth

    41. The rent of an estate above ground, commonly amounts to what is supposed to be a third of the gross produce; and it is generally a rent certain and independent of the occasional variations in the crop


    42. This value was antecedent to, and independent of their being employed as coin, and was the quality which fitted them for that employment


    43. There were seven counters and twelve checkers, none of whom were allowed to vote because they had to be independent


    44. These circumstances, as they are altogether independent of domestic industry, so they necessarily render the efficacy of its efforts more or less uncertain


    45. terms, as something isolated, independent, as it would


    46. In the other part of the world, independent of the


    47. They are the only one of the three orders whose revenue costs them neither labour nor care, but comes to them, as it were, of its own accord, and independent of any plan or project of their own


    48. His allies, the free Makii stood against them, independent and unpredictable


    49. Every independent organism treats time differently


    50. Thus, at present, in the opulent countries of Europe, a very large, frequently the largest, portion of the produce of the land, is destined for replacing the capital of the rich and independent farmer ; the other for paying his profits, and the rent of the landlord














































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    Synonyms for "independent"

    free-lance free lance freelance freelancer independent self-employed person fencesitter mugwump main autonomous self-governing sovereign solvent well-off affluent wealthy rich well-to-do unconstrained free self-reliant separate

    "independent" definitions

    a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)


    a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them


    free from external control and constraint


    (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces


    (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence


    not controlled by a party or interest group