Meaning of independent in English

Examples of independent

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Participants within each focus group represented a range of pharmacy types (multiples, independents and small chains).
The independents, he argues, should not be viewed as forerunners of modernity and rational bureaucracy.
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The new electoral system should thus produce more party-centered campaigns at least in the sense that it makes it disadvantages independents.
Most conservative independents were younger politicians trying to win their ®rst election.
First, it gives of®cial party nominees an advantage over independents.
None of the subsequent independents from the right got as many votes as he did or managed to get more female than male votes.
The importance of local factors in the elections is most evident, however, in the large number of independents (98) who stood in the parliamentary elections.
There were several clashes between the supporters of official party candidates and those of the independents.
One plausible alternative is to neutralize the issue through the selection of independents (non-partisans) to head the two departments.
The reference category is thus weak partisans and independents who 'lean' towards either party.
There is the practical problem that we tend not to know the ideal policy positions of all independents in the system.
One obvious and feasible solution is to treat independents as unreliable, not to be counted as a part of any stable majority.
Strong partisans for example, having a more coherent approach to viewing their political world, could be expected to have a greater sense of efficacy than independents and weak partisans.
We use 'pure' independents as a dummy variable (rather than as our reference category) as they are distinguished from weak partisans and independents who lean by lower levels of participation.
We added the votes of the independents to each party because most of the independents that were elected subsequently joined the party with which they had subpact.
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Translations of independent

in Chinese (Traditional)
不受影響的, 獨立的, (從政者)無黨派的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
不受影响的, 独立的, (从政者)无党派的…
in Spanish
independiente, independiente [masculine-feminine], autónomo/ma [masculine-feminine]…
in Portuguese
independente…
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独立心の強い, 自立した, 独立した…
bağımsız, hür, serbest…
indépendant/-ante, autonome, indépendant (de)…
independent…
مُسْتَقِلّ…
nezávislý, samostatný, nezávislý (na)…
selvstændig, uafhængig…
merdeka, mandiri, independen…
ซึ่งปกครองตนเอง, คนที่พึ่งตนเอง, ซึ่งเป็นอิสระ…
độc lập, không phụ thuộc, sung túc…
niepodległy, niezależny, samodzielny…
merdeka, berdikari…
unabhängig, selbstständig…
uavhengig, uavhengig bokhande, selvstendig…
독립적인…
indipendente…
независимый, самостоятельный, объективный…
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