Read the dictionary definition of independent. All definitions for this word.
1. a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them
2. a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)
3. free from external control and constraint
1. an independent mind
2. a series of independent judgments
3. fiercely independent individualism
4. (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence
1. the main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb
5. not controlled by a party or interest group
6. (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces
1. an autonomous judiciary
2. a sovereign state
