Independent

Independent or The Independents may refer to:

  • Independent bookstore, bookstore that is not part of a chain
  • Independent business, privately-owned companies
  • Independent city, city that does not form part of another local government entity
  • Independent clothes store, boutique not associated with the larger retailers
  • Independent contractor, organisation or individual which provides goods or services under terms specified in a contract
  • Independent living, philosophy of working for self-determination, self-respect and equal opportunities
  • Independent (politician), not affiliated with any political party
  • Independent publisher, small press not associated with a major publisher
  • Independent (religion), group active during the English Civil War
  • Independent school, school which is not dependent upon national or local government for financing its operation
  • Independent sources, in journalism, two or more sources which attest to a given piece of information
  • Independent Truck Company, American skateboarding brand
  • Dependent and independent verb forms in Goidelic languages
  • Independent (voter), not a member of any political party
  • Vickers A1E1 Independent, British multi-turreted tank designed during the Interwar period
  • Dependent and independent variables

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Famous quotes containing the word independent:

    “For myself I found that the occupation of a day-laborer was the most independent of any, especially as it required only thirty or forty days in a year to support one. The laborer’s day ends with the going down of the sun, and he is then free to devote himself to his chosen pursuit, independent of his labor; but his employer, who speculates from month to month, has no respite from one end of the year to the other.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.”
    —Los Angeles Sportscaster. quoted in Independent Magazine (London, Sept. 28, 1991)

    “The real, then, is that which, sooner or later, information and reasoning would finally result in, and which is therefore independent of the vagaries of me and you. Thus, the very origin of the conception of reality shows that this conception essentially involves the notion of a COMMUNITY, without definite limits, and capable of a definite increase of knowledge.”
    —Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)