B2not influenced or controlled in any way by other people, events, or things: an independent enquiry/organizationThey all made the same comment, quite independent of each other (= without deciding together to do so).Freedom to actOpportunity ›describes a politician who does not agree or vote with any particular political partyPolitics›specializeddescribes a grammatical clause which forms part of a sentence but can also form a separate sentenceGrammatical termsindependently
/-li/adverbB2The two scientists both made the same discovery independently, at roughly the same time.Each part of the organization operates independently of the others.Freedom to actOpportunity