freestanding
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- adjective
- /ˈfriːˌstændɪŋ/
:
independiente
- Other marks of change were the emergence of "freestanding" seminaries (that is, institutions not conducted in tandem with lay colleges), and the growing displacement of small seminaries in each diocese by larger freestanding institutions serving several dioceses.
Examples
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Most Protestants avoided freestanding images, with the exception of portraits, emblems, and allegorical pictures.
Academic text (2003) -
At the beginning, those patients had to go to a a dialysis unit in a hospital and then freestanding dialysis clinics have been created.
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These may be community-based or freestanding agencies that provide home healthcare services to people in their community.
Academic text (1994) -
In 1948, project Research and Development, or RAND, organized by the Douglas Aircraft Company, became a freestanding nonprofit organization devoted to strategic defense analysis.
Academic text (1992) -
FYI, we are in a freestanding medical building, and the building next to us is the Dekalb Police Agency; in fact, it overlooks us.
Blog text (4) -
An MTA can be a freestanding contract, or it can be incorporated as part of the compensation arrangement in a comprehensive bioprospecting contract.
Academic text (1997) -
Compared to the administration of a social work department in an independent or freestanding hospital, social work management within a multihealth corporation requires both subtle and substantive changes.
Academic text (1990) -
She knew from her talks with the Mastermind that it was a freestanding bank with two drive-through lanes.
Fiction book (2002) -
This recent spate of ethnically marked museums raises the issue of who and what determines which groups should be honored at the national museum by their own freestanding institution.
Academic text (2006) -
The organization aims to establish a freestanding clinic that offers comprehensive health services without reliance on larger hospitals.
Synonyms
Not connected to any group or organization
Free from any tie and able to move or act freely
Antonyms
How Independent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Freestanding comes from the simple parts free ('not attached') and standing ('standing on its own'), so a freestanding clinic or shop 'stands' on its own and is independent, not part of a larger organization.