0 income that you have from investments, etc. rather than from a job:
As a woman of independent means, she spent most of her life in voluntary work.
He has independent means.
1 income that you have from investments, etc. rather than from a job:
He was a man of independent means.
Because categories are defined in terms of other categories in a perfectly circular system, infants require some independent means for breaking into this system.
It seems much more likely that the operation itself applies freely, and that certain conditions of the grammar restrict its applications by independent means.
Unfortunately, most of the time we have little independent means for judging the relative strength of one motivation compared to another.
For one thing, it violated the principle of the separation of powers which called for independent means of electing each branch of government.
Making functions independent means to localize structural changes necessary for upgrading functions.
A t test for independent means found no significant gender differences on any variables.
Similarly, the lack of an independent means of measuring flight trajectories prevented us from making direct assessments of errors in the radar measurements of insect displacement velocity.
This meant that those serving as churchwardens and overseers had to be men of independent means, who could afford to, in effect, lend the parish money.
