• 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"

'Independent' in other languages