The word "freestanding" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is standing or functioning independently without any support. For example, "The freestanding sculpture stood in the center of the room."
Belton told Guardian Australia that hospitalisation isn't always necessary, as in other states and territories the procedure is often carried out by GPs who have done diplomas in obstetrics and gynaecology, as well as in freestanding abortion clinics.
Most Hindu temples are freestanding.
Pistoia's medieval city centre is dominated by the 12th-century cathedral in the Piazza del Duomo, with its freestanding bell tower (once a Lombard watchtower) and the baptistery (begun 1337) opposite.
In London the Red Lion (1567) was freestanding, built in a garden with seating risers and a large stage backed by a tower.
The sensitive viewer would find strong expression and forceful activity in monumental, freestanding sculpture illogical (i.e., marble should not writhe or fly) and gratingly theatrical.
In the first (Link to subsection of Rawls article) "freestanding" conception of political justification, Rawls (2005, 12) requires that citizens reason on shared terms in order to converge on a political conception of justice.
A political conception is freestanding: it is a "module" that can fit into any number of worldviews that citizens might have.
This means that public reason should be "freestanding" in the same way as his theory of justice is.
To address this problem, Rawls recasts justice as fairness as a "freestanding" political conception of justice on which people with different comprehensive views may agree in an "overlapping consensus".
A freestanding claw-foot bath, embellished with numerous Victorian nozzles, is surely more suited for a night of decadent trysts than a quick solitary dip.
On dry land historical sights range from fortified baroque capital Valletta to mysterious Neolithic fertility temples and the oldest freestanding building on earth at Ggantija.
