It was unlikely that the collection as a stand-alone business would ever turn a profit.

"This was a stand-alone business with no particular synergies for other Murdoch businesses."

For starters, consider how many of these companies no longer exist as stand-alone businesses.

You might be able to survive as a stand-alone business.

But as a stand-alone business, I think the jury is still out on that.

"It's now a stand-alone business," the managing agent continued.

Sort of a high-tech temp agency, the venture is scheduled to begin in July as a stand-alone business.

Only two strip centers currently exist in the community, the rest of the area is full of small, stand-alone businesses.

We want to build it to be a stand-alone business.

It's just that voice by itself doesn't have the value to really sustain itself as a stand-alone business.