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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reliant
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
heavily dependent/reliant/influenced
▪ Britain is heavily dependent on imports for its raw materials.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
heavily
▪ Britainis particularly vulnerable to a financial crisis since it is heavily reliant on the profits of speculation.
▪ This would mean that the patient is heavily reliant on assembled phonology.
▪ Observers have pointed to the potential contradictions of a self-help project which is heavily reliant for its continuation on external funding.
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▪ These facts make them more reliant than they should be on the good opinion of their partners.
▪ The rating firm said that the company is more reliant on its revolving credit lines because of the elimination of commercial paper.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Baseball is still largely reliant on players drafted straight out of high school.
▪ It was an enormous step for man to cease to be reliant on vegetation, and to add meat to his diet.
▪ So, why are pandas reliant on bamboo?
▪ The government wants to change pension savings, making people less reliant on state pensions.
▪ The rating firm said that the company is more reliant on its revolving credit lines because of the elimination of commercial paper.
▪ They are not reliant on the approval of others, and anchor their supports deeply within themselves as well as externally.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reliant

Reliant \Re*li"ant\ (-ant), a. Having, or characterized by, reliance; confident; trusting.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reliant

1856; see rely + -ant. Because it means "dependent (on)" it would seem an odd name for an automobile, but Chrysler (Plymouth) nonetheless chose it as one in 1981.

Wiktionary
reliant

a. Having reliance on.

WordNet
reliant

adj. relying on another for support; "dependent on Middle Eastern oil"

Wikipedia
Reliant

Reliant was a British car manufacturer. The company was traditionally based at Tamworth in Staffordshire.

Reliant was mainly known for producing the 3-wheeled Reliant Robin, but in fact produced a variety of different vehicles during a production run of over 60 years, including popular sports cars, convertibles and commercial vehicles. Around 1 to 2 million Reliant vehicles were produced, and were sold in at least 9 countries. For a period from the 1970s to the 1990s, Reliant was the UK's biggest British-owned car manufacturer.

Reliant Motor Company LTD is now a dormant company and the only part that still exists is Reliant partsworld which produce spares for Reliant vehicles.

Reliant (disambiguation)

Reliant may refer to:

  • Reliant, also known as Reliant Motors, a British car manufacturer
    • Reliant Robin, a car which they produced
  • Reliant Energy, an energy corporation from Houston, Texas, United States
  • Reliant Pharmaceuticals, now owned by GlaxoSmithKline
  • Stinson Reliant (UC-81, AT-19), utility and trainer aircraft
  • Hipp's Superbirds Reliant, ultralight aircraft
  • Hipp's Superbirds Reliant SX, ultralight aircraft
  • Plymouth Reliant, a North American car
  • The Reliant UNIX, ex. SINIX
  • USS Reliant, a spacecraft from the Star Trek fictional universe
  • , a US Navy Valiant-class tugboat

Usage examples of "reliant".

And finally, in considering the emancipation of the serfs- short-sighted though it was, for what should those underlings so reliant upon Exalted protection and guidance do with their new freedom?

Now that we were alone - and no longer reliant on Celestine - Childe had revealed himself as a more than adequately capable problem-solver.

The lesson had been overseen by the aneurism-burstingly tedious Mr Jones, a man so reliant upon cliche' for communication that his joining the teaching profession was an enormous loss to ITN.

The largest power seller identified by the governor of California as a price gouger, the coowner of Rio Light, was Reliant, known as Houston Power & Light before it globalized.

They were totally reliant on the vast magnetospheres of such worlds for power.

The remaining floorspace of those three sub-levels housed leisure facilities not reliant on natural light, such as cinemas, night clubs, bars, shops and restaurants.

The largest power seller identified by the governor of California as a price gouger, the coowner of Rio Light, was Reliant, known as Houston Power &amp.

The federal government privatized Rio Light, selling it to Electricite de France and Reliant of Houston, Texas.

Now call me an unreconstructed philistine, but it seems to me - and I offer this observation in a spirit of friendship - that when a nation's industrial prowess has plunged so low that it is reliant on Korean firms for its future economic security, then perhaps it is time to re-address one's educational priorities and maybe give a little thought to what's going to put some food on the table in about 2010.

Mara had been reliant on hearsay bought by tossing coins over the walls to rumourmongers, and what news she managed to glean was far too sparse for the enormity of the events that had transpired.