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Mutual reliance
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interdependence
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Wiktionary
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n. the condition of being interdependent
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interdependence \In`ter*de*pend"ence\, n. Mutual dependence. ``The interdependence of virtue and knowledge.'' --M. Arnold.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Interdependence is the mutual reliance between two or more groups. This concept differs from the reliance in a dependent relationship, where some members are dependent and some are not. There can be various degrees of interdependence. In an interdependent ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1822, from inter- + dependence .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE economic ▪ In this context of an advanced division of labour, interests theories specify the legitimate range of economic interdependence .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) [syn: mutuality , interdependency ]
Usage examples of interdependence.
Close cohabitation and close interdependence are sufficient for maintaining century after century that deep respect for the interests of the community which is characteristic of Eskimo life.
Feral hamsters bogey-wise right up there with mile-high toddlers, skull-deprived wraiths, carnivorous flora, and marsh-gas that melts your face off and leaves you with exposed gray-and-red facial musculature for the rest of your ghoulish-pariah life, in terms of late-night hair-raising Concavity narratives are rarely sighted south of the Lucíte walls and ATH-SCME'd checkpoints that delimit the Great Concavity, and only once in a blue moon anywhere south of like the new-border burg of Methuen MA, whose Chamber of Commerce calls it 'The City That Interdependence Rebuilt,' and anyway pace Blott are hardly ever seen solo, being the sort of rapacious locust-like mass-movement creature that Canadian agronomists call 'Piranha of the Plains.
Sinistral, his right hand missing digits from a fireworks accident three Interdependence Days past, Axhandle is several cm.
So the Kota lived in cozy economic interdependence with the Toda livestock-breeders and Badaga farmers, swapping handicrafts and music for steaks and bread.
Such movement up and down the river ensured that the city-states would share a language and a culture and feel a certain economic interdependence and communal understanding.
Sometimes families cultivate independent lifestyles that have the appearance of interdependence even though deep within, there is profound dependence.
There, he thought, was the final abortion of the creed of collective interdependence, the creed of non-identity, nonproperty, non-fact: the belief that the moral stature of one is at the mercy of the action of another.