independent
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
independent/ɪndɪˈpendənt/
▶adjective
- 1 free from outside control; not subject to another's authority.
■ (of a country) self-governing.
■ not supported by public funds: an independent school.
- 2 not depending on another for livelihood or subsistence.
■ capable of acting or thinking for oneself.
- 3 not connected with another; separate: we need two independent witnesses to testify.
- 4 (Independent) historical Congregational.
– derivatives
independence noun,
independency noun (pl. independencies),
independently adverb.
independence noun,
independency noun (pl. independencies),
independently adverb.
'independent' also found in these Oxford entries:
absolute
- arbitrator
- argument
- assisted place
- atomism
- audit
- autarky
- babble
- bachelor girl
- beta test
- brain death
- charter school
- chromaticity
- CIS
- city state
- college
- commonwealth
- concert overture
- corporatize
- cross-bencher
- day care
- day centre
- decolonize
- definite integral
- degree of freedom
- derivative
- descant
- diarchy
- distributed system
- ditheism
- domain
- duke
- dumb
- eigenfunction
- entity
- Eritrean
- fantasy
- federal
- first-order
- frame
- free spirit
- guerrilla
- high school
- -hood
- house church
- IBA
- ILP
- ILR
- implicit
- Ind.
