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dependency
Word definitions for dependency in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A state of dependence; a refusal to exercise initiative. 2 Something dependent on, or subordinate to, something else: 3 A colony, or a territory subject to rule by an external power. 4 A dependence on a habit-forming substance such as a drug or alcohol; ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In the Unified Modeling Language (UML), a Dependency is a relationship that shows that an element , or set of elements, requires other model elements for their specification or implementation. The element is dependent upon the independent element, called ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dependency \De*pend"en*cy\, n.; pl. Dependencies . State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust. Any long series of action, the parts of which have very much dependency each ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE chemical ▪ Anyway, chemical dependency is easier to study than other sorts. economic ▪ The major cost of age discrimination is economic dependency , the most extreme form of which is poverty. ▪ In fact, with their ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. lack of independence or self-sufficiency [syn: dependence , dependance ] being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) [syn: addiction , dependence , ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s (adj.), 1610s (n.); see dependent + -cy . Originally also dependancy , on the French model, but the Latinate form gradually pushed this into disuse; see -ance . Meaning "territory subordinate to another nation" is recorded from 1680s.
Usage examples of dependency.
Others are driven to cybersex out of loneliness, dependency, anger, or a deep insatiable emptiness that demands to be filled.
If Bruno held Heugh as a vassal, we would be secure and free of dependency on the king and queen.
Bokhara and Khiva, though represented as vassal khanates, are in reality mere dependencies of Russia.
On this morning he had summoned all the Seers, Demons, and Pursuivants of his Demesne and dependencies, and with them the Rancelmen and others whose Talent it is to seek and find.
Governor of some West Indian dependency, whether as a reward for having accepted the baronetcy, or as an application of a theory that West Indian islands get the Governors they deserve, it would have been hard to say.
A Bill for the Regulation of Scientific Experimentation upon Human Beings in the District of Columbia and in the Territories and Dependencies of the United States.
Moreover, the marriage insurance condemns her to life-long dependency, to parasitism, to complete uselessness, individual as well as social.
Indeed, many depressing attitudes have a long history: feeling inferior, helplessness, pessimism, guilt, self-criticalness, perfectionism, hypersensitiveness, shyness, dependency, socially neediness, hostility, and being without systematic values to guide our lives.
To the contrary, we are to use the repetition of the word as a way of regrounding ourselves in a naked intent of love, void of any dependency on thoughts or images.
Agursky had been freed from the responsibility of tending the thing in the tank, so his dependency on local vodka and cheap slivovitz had fallen off.
Such are the connexions, dependencies, and relations subsisting between the mechanical arts, agriculture, and manufactures of Great Britain, that it requires study, deliberation, and inquiry in the legislature to discern and distinguish the whole scope and consequences of many projects offered for the benefit of the commonwealth.
In a coaxially sphere bounded media, the media would be uniformly illuminated and there would be no distance dependency and the energy required would be optimally low and efficient.
The critiques of the developmentalist view that were posed by underdevelopment theories and dependency theories, which were born primarily in the Latin American and African contexts in the 1960s, were useful and important precisely because they emphasized the fact that the evolution of a regional or national economic system depends to a large extent on its place within the hierarchy and power structures of the capitalist world-system.
For a critique of the developmentalist ideology of dependency theories, see ibid.
But I went on to state the reasons which had actuated me in favoring the measure, and that my unconquerable repugnance to the acquisition of territory to be held in dependency did not apply to that case.