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:

    “So far as I am individually concerned, & independent of my pocket, it is my earnest desire to write those sort of books which are said to “fail.””
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “There is in fact no such thing as art for art’s sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.”
    —Mao Zedong (1893–1976)

    “[My father] was a lazy man. It was the days of independent incomes, and if you had an independent income you didn’t work. You weren’t expected to. I strongly suspect that my father would not have been particularly good at working anyway. He left our house in Torquay every morning and went to his club. He returned, in a cab, for lunch, and in the afternoon went back to the club, played whist all afternoon, and returned to the house in time to dress for dinner.”
    —Agatha Christie (1891–1976)