independent

independent
adj.
1 not needing other people
VERBS
▪ be, feel, seem
▪ become
▪ remain
▪ make sb
▪

Her travels in Asia have made her a lot more independent.

ADVERB
▪ fiercely, very
▪

Many disabled people are fiercely independent.

▪ completely
▪ fairly, pretty, quite
▪ economically, financially
PREPOSITION
▪ of
▪

By the age of eighteen he was completely independent of his parents.

2 not influenced or controlled by anyone else
VERBS
▪ be
▪ become
▪ remain, stay
▪

His company is a target for takeovers, but plans to stay independent.

▪ make sth
▪ declare sth
▪

In 1961 the country was declared independent.

ADVERB
▪ completely, entirely, fully, genuinely, quite (esp. BrE), totally, truly, wholly
▪ almost, fairly, largely, relatively, virtually
▪

Many local clans remain relatively independent.

▪ increasingly
▪ essentially
▪

This figure is essentially independent of population size.

▪ nominally, supposedly
▪ newly
▪

newly independent countries

▪ politically
▪ logically, statistically
▪

His system rests upon two logically independent arguments.

▪ mutually
▪

They are two separate, mutually independent entities.

PREPOSITION
▪ from
▪

The country became fully independent from France in 1960.

▪ of
▪

an organization that is independent of the government

Independent is used with these nouns: ↑accountant, ↑advice, ↑adviser, ↑agency, ↑appraisal, ↑arbitration, ↑assessment, ↑auditor, ↑body, ↑broadcaster, ↑channel, ↑check, ↑cinema, ↑clause, ↑colony, ↑commentator, ↑commission, ↑confirmation, ↑consultant, ↑contractor, ↑counsel, ↑country, ↑dealer, ↑developer, ↑discipline, ↑distributor, ↑enquiry, ↑entity, ↑evaluation, ↑existence, ↑expenditure, ↑experiment, ↑expert, ↑farmer, ↑film, ↑homeland, ↑hotel, ↑individual, ↑inspection, ↑inspector, ↑institute, ↑investigation, ↑journalist, ↑judge, ↑judgement, ↑kingdom, ↑label, ↑laboratory, ↑learning, ↑manufacturer, ↑means, ↑monitoring, ↑nation, ↑newspaper, ↑observer, ↑operator, ↑origin, ↑panel, ↑paper, ↑producer, ↑professional, ↑prosecutor, ↑publisher, ↑report, ↑republic, ↑researcher, ↑retailer, ↑review, ↑ruler, ↑school, ↑scientist, ↑sector, ↑shopkeeper, ↑source, ↑specialist, ↑spirit, ↑state, ↑status, ↑streak, ↑studio, ↑study, ↑supplier, ↑survey, ↑suspension, ↑thinker, ↑thinking, ↑thought, ↑trader, ↑traveller, ↑tribunal, ↑trust, ↑trustee, ↑union, ↑valuation, ↑verification, ↑watchdog, ↑witness, ↑woman

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