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stand-alone

British  

adjective

  1. computing (of a device or system) capable of operating independently of any other device or system

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“I want customers to feel as close to being in one of our stand-alone stores as possible so we used our color palette and furniture,” says Deirdre Quinn, the brand’s founder and CEO.

From The Wall Street Journal

Some managers at Google’s cloud-computing division recently refreshed a longstanding internal debate about restructuring the TPU team into a stand-alone unit, people familiar with those discussions said.

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So when the stand-alone triple loop toward the end of Glenn’s program turned into a double, it meant the entire element was void and she earned nothing for it.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s time for some kind of stand-alone European military effort, they say, or at least more collaboration.

From The Wall Street Journal

Union Pacific UNP 0.57%increase; green up pointing triangle and Norfolk Southern NSC 0.58%increase; green up pointing triangle each report depreciation as a stand-alone operating expense on the income statement.

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