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Dependent Worker: A worker in a family in which someone else has greater personal income.

Independent Tour: An unescorted tour sold through agents to individuals. For one price, the client receives air travel, accommodation, attraction admissions and typically, car rental.

Independent Variable: An independent variable that can be set to a known value in an experiment. Several independent variables may be controlled in an experiment. For example, in an experiment where the vapor pre . . . View Full Definition

Knowledge Worker: Employees whose job functions are primarily of an intellectual nature.

National Association Of Independent Fee Appraisers (NAIFA): A professional association of appraisers with more than 2,000 members nationally. NAIFA offers the specialty designations IFA (member), IFAS (senior member) and IFAC (appraiser-counselor).

Independent Telephone Network (ITN): Companies not affiliated with the local telephone companies.

Independent Station: Stations not affiliated with any network, usually refers to commercial stations only.

Independent Living: A type of placement that provides life-skills training to youth to assist them to acquire the skills they will need to live independently as adults. The program is designed for children who . . . View Full Definition

Independent Practice Association (IPA): An organization comprised of individual physicians or physicians in small group practices that contracts with MCOs on behalf of its member physicians to provide healthcare services.

Independent Practice Associations: IPAs are similar to HMOs, except that individuals receive care in a physician's own office, rather than in an HMO facility.