Independent in a sentence as a noun

The web was device independent from the get-go.

But on Android based devices there are independent from the Android system.

As an independent restaurant owner, I can't say I didn't expect to see this one day.

A bunch of independent BBSes where the shareware games where passed around and talked about purely through word of mouth.

This man is described as an "independent market trader" in the attached article.

We basically have one shot, per body in the solar system, to find an example of life with an independent abiogenesis point.

Independent in a sentence as an adjective

" Barnes & Noble and independent retailers have operated on wholesale pricing for print books for decades.

This is the kind of thing I'd like to read for myself, as advice from one dad to another, and the kind of thing I'd like my children to read to prepare for their own independent adult lives.

My concern has always been not that we shouldnt do intelligence gathering to prevent terrorism, but rather are we setting up a system of checks and balances?So, on this telephone program, youve got a federal court with independent federal judges overseeing the entire program.

Topic other than discussing the irresponsibility of "outing" a guy using the clever tricks of using his name and public records look ups.> A libertarian, Nakamoto encouraged his daughter to be independent, start her own business and "not be under the government's thumb," she says.

Notch strongly believes that the computer should stay a bastion of openness in order to sustain a indie game community--indeed, the majority of my own games I play today are small, independent games that provide a unique experience that I would hate to lose due to higher barriers to entry.

It also means you create tax risks and complications: if the equity round is too near the time of formation, the $.0001/sh pricing used by founders for their shares may look funny next to the much higher amount per share paid by investors, raising risks that the founders can be deemed to have received their shares at the higher valuation as potentially taxable service income; once you do an equity round, you will need to do 409A valuations in connection with doing option grants and that necessitates getting outside independent appraisals; equity rounds come with strings, including investor preferences, investor protective provisions limiting what you can do as a founder without investor approval, co-sale and first refusal rights favoring investors and concomitantly limiting founders, board seats and/or observer rights for investors, and the like.

Independent definitions

noun

a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)

See also: mugwump fencesitter

noun

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

See also: freelancer freelance free-lance

adjective

free from external control and constraint; "an independent mind"; "a series of independent judgments"; "fiercely independent individualism"

adjective

(of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces; "an autonomous judiciary"; "a sovereign state"

See also: autonomous self-governing sovereign

adjective

(of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence; "the main (or independent) clause in a complex sentence has at least a subject and a verb"

adjective

not controlled by a party or interest group