0 income that you have from investments, etc. rather than from a job:
He has independent means.
As a woman of independent means, she spent most of her life in voluntary work.
1 income that you have from investments, etc. rather than from a job:
He was a man of independent means.
This is a very important point, as it is impossible for owners who are without independent means to do this work.
The minimum level of capital normally necessary for an applicant to come here as a person of independent means is revised from time to time.
We have no independent means of verifying any of these reports.
The code provides that if, after negotiation, the parties cannot reach agreement, a fair rent should be determined by some independent means of arbitration.
We see great strength in establishing an independent means of reaching such decisions.
The third of the main changes in the rules concerns the financial requirements for businessmen and persons of independent means.
If those of independent means are excluded from the 'inactive' population the figures become 23 per cent and 19 per cent for 1851 and 1881 respectively.
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.
