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);
not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else;
not contingent;
free from external control and constraint; "an independent mind"; "a series of independent judgments"; "fiercely independent individualism"; "an independent republic";
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;
of political bodies; "an autonomous judiciary"; "a sovereign state";
