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dependent

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Word definitions for dependent in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. relying upon; depending upon. n. 1 (context US English) One who relies on another for support 2 (context grammar English) An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners. 3 (context grammar ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) [syn: dependant ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES be addicted to drugs/dependent on drugs (= be unable to stop taking drugs ) ▪ People who are addicted to drugs need help. dependent clause economically dependent on (= depending on someone or something for money ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dependent \De*pend"ent\, n. One who depends; one who is sustained by another, or who relies on another for financial support or favor; a hanger-on; a retainer; as, a numerous train of dependents. A host of dependents on the court, suborned to play their ...

Usage examples of dependent.

God, who, abidingly what He is, yet creates that multitude, all dependent on Him, existing by Him and from Him.

The abuser creates a situation in which everyone in the family is dependent upon him.

Then the United States would no longer have been dependent on proxies to gather actionable intelligence.

Our opponents after first admitting the unity go on to make our soul dependent on something else, something in which we have no longer the soul of this or that, even of the universe, but a soul of nowhere, a soul belonging neither to the kosmos, nor to anything else, and yet vested with all the function inherent to the kosmic soul and to that of every ensouled thing.

Sir Alured, with all his foibles, and with all his faults, was a pure-minded, simple gentleman, who could not tell a lie, who could not do a wrong, and who was earnest in his desire to make those who were dependent on him comfortable, and, if possible, happy.

As this latter movement occurred in complete darkness, and with peduncles arising from upright and from dependent branches, it cannot be due to apheliotropism or to epinasty, but must be attributed to geotropism.

The art which could give them shape is doubtless intimately dependent on clearness of eye and sincerity of purpose, but it is also something over and above these, and comes from an organic aptitude not less special, when possessed with fulness, than the aptitude for music or drawing.

The way the commissioners kept the asterites dependent on expensive food imports was just another example of the selfish Mandate politics.

Crocker believes that the disease is an atrophic degeneration of the skin, dependent on a primary neurosis, to which there is a congenital predisposition.

He asked Zern why he wanted to see the Aureole Mine, and when Zern replied that he was interested simply because his own property was dependent on the value of the Aureole, Bob agreed to take him to the shaft.

Eastern Fleet, when it is possible to form one, which is dependent on the availability of cruisers and particularly of destroyers.

Yet it was unfunny to Bink, for it meant he was still dependent on her--until he finished what she had prepared and foraged for himself.

From the throne whence the emperor viewed the Circensian games a winding staircase descended to the palace, a magnificent edifice, which scarcely yielded to the residence of Rome itself, and which, together with the dependent courts, gardens, and porticoes, covered a considerable extent of ground upon the banks of the Propontis between the Hippodrome and the church of St.

Without preliminary lightening, it became a gateway to a bright cityscape built as within a sphere or tube, buildings dependent from all visible surfaces.

The process of diffusion may often be very slow, being dependent on climatal and geographical changes, or on strange accidents, but in the long run the dominant forms will generally succeed in spreading.