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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dependence
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
▪ The literary implications of economic dependence must be observed.
▪ In the first case, therefore, the woman has had to shift her economic dependence from her husband to the state.
financial
▪ Accordingly, contractual obligations are not limited to agreements, but extend to cases of mutual reliance and financial dependence.
▪ For most of the women, paid work had been a route out of the family and domestic and financial dependence.
great
▪ Greenpeace is deeply concerned that this development will lead to monopoly control over genetic resources and an even greater dependence on herbicides.
▪ Can energy efficiency and a greater dependence on natural gas cut carbon emissions sufficiently on their own?
▪ The greater its dependence on others, the less its ability to issue credible threats or to mobilise for sustained hostilities.
▪ Non-readers show a greater dependence on television for political information.
▪ And the woman, because of her great dependence, is usually the loser.
heavy
▪ In political terms this failure forced heavy dependence on indirect revenue sources.
▪ Thus, humans' heavy dependence on present sources of electric power has many undesirable aspects.
▪ The heavy dependence on foreign technical assistance has had many disadvantages.
▪ This confirms that both countries feel troubled by their heavy dependence on oil.
mutual
▪ But it was a remarkable demonstration of allied unity and mutual dependence.
▪ The relationship between general practitioners and district health authorities needs to be explicitly recognised as one of mutual dependence rather than competition.
▪ Such integration did not, however, mean identity of interest. Mutual dependence also contained the seeds of conflict.
▪ If anything a mutual dependence was growing.
▪ The mutual dependence of profitability and growth, as we will see, makes the assessment of management motivation particularly problematical.
▪ In a way, it has to be put down to mutual dependence.
▪ The meal, like a ritual communion, had confirmed the curious, unspoken, mutual dependence which bound them.
▪ When two parties live in harmony, neither makes much fuss and mutual dependence may pass unobserved.
physical
▪ That first post-natal subservience, bred of physical dependence, was too ingrained ever to be totally eradicated.
▪ Short-term treatment is not associated with significant tolerance or physical dependence.
▪ Where extreme physical dependence is present, every aspect of daily living has to be planned and managed.
▪ Dependence Tolerance and withdrawal are the classic signs of physical dependence on a drug.
▪ Morphine and Valium, for example, regularly produce physical dependence.
▪ These demographic variables are experienced in addition to high levels of physical dependence, frailty and mental health problems.
▪ The newborn child can suffer from physical dependence, withdrawal symptoms or even serious birth defects.
total
▪ If he was exploited by landowners and the merchant and artisan classes, this did not result in total dependence on them.
▪ For example, the total dependence on imported equipment in all the plants magnified the consequences of a broken sewing machine.
▪ Most people dread dependence and have no understanding of the very limited extent of total dependence in old age.
■ NOUN
alcohol
▪ Most people make the change from occasional social drinking to alcohol dependence gradually.
▪ Studies of twins and of alcohol-dependent patients point to an inherited vulnerability to alcohol dependence, too.
drug
▪ His father says that David accepts the sentence, and is getting treatment for his drug dependence.
▪ You can get treatment for drug dependence, mostly as an outpatient.
temperature
▪ The method has been used to study the frequency and temperature dependence of viscoelastic moduli for many years.
▪ This increased temperature dependence can not be explained merely by additional carbon conduction, as graphite conduction is nearly independent of temperature.
■ VERB
increase
▪ This gave both parties greater flexibility, while increasing their dependence on money.
▪ The Reagan New Federalism also signalled an increased dependence of urban areas on state government.
▪ But it also had the effect of increasing dependence.
▪ What the officials of these states ignore is that the age of fetishism is over, and importing military hardware increases dependence.
▪ But other changes, especially economic ones, have tended to increase their dependence on their families.
▪ Logistical problems of corporations operating outside their home countries increase this dependence.
reduce
▪ Engineers could also reduce their dependence on strategically important metals by redesigning components.
▪ The main priorities are: A comprehensive transportation study with a view to reducing the level of dependence on private cars.
▪ Though originally encouraged to reduce their dependence on civil servants, the soldiers could not govern alone.
▪ Treatment was aimed to reduce Maria's dependence on the bottle by providing it only at bedtime and in the morning.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Dependence on alcohol can have a serious effect on your relationships and career.
▪ The clinic treats people affected by drug dependence.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dependence Tolerance and withdrawal are the classic signs of physical dependence on a drug.
▪ Can energy efficiency and a greater dependence on natural gas cut carbon emissions sufficiently on their own?
▪ Other topics on which findings are ambiguous are the effects on leisure activity, crime, and degree of dependence on parents.
▪ The meal, like a ritual communion, had confirmed the curious, unspoken, mutual dependence which bound them.
▪ Their mutual dependence was destroying Luke as much as her.
▪ There is a lot of leadership that comes out of fear, dependence, and guilt.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dependence

Dependence \De*pend"ence\, n. [LL. dependentia, fr. L. dependens. See Dependent, and cf. Dependance.]

  1. The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support.

  2. The state of being influenced and determined by something; subjection (as of an effect to its cause).

    The cause of effects, and the dependence of one thing upon another.
    --Bp. Burnet.

  3. Mutual connection and support; concatenation; systematic inter-relation.

    So dark and so intricate of purpose, without any dependence or order.
    --Sir T. More.

  4. Subjection to the direction or disposal of another; inability to help or provide for one's self; a lack of independence or self-sufficiency.

    Syn: dependance, dependency.

    Reduced to a servile dependence on their mercy.
    --Burke.

  5. A resting with confidence; reliance; trust.

    Affectionate dependence on the Creator is the spiritual life of the soul.
    --T. Erskine.

  6. That on which one depends or relies; as, he was her sole dependence.

  7. That which depends; anything dependent or suspended; anything attached a subordinate to, or contingent on, something else.

    Like a large cluster of black grapes they show And make a large dependence from the bough.
    --Dryden.

  8. A matter depending, or in suspense, and still to be determined; ground of controversy or quarrel. [Obs.]

    To go on now with my first dependence.
    --Beau. & Fl.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dependence

early 15c., from Middle French dépendance, from dependre (see depend). Originally also dependance (the earlier form), depending whether the writer had French or Latin foremost in mind; the Latin form gradually predominated and after c.1800 dependance is rare. As an adjective from c.1600.

Wiktionary
dependence

n. 1 The state of being dependent, of relying upon another. 2 An irresistible physical or psychological need, especially for a chemical substance.

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WordNet
dependence

  1. n. lack of independence or self-sufficiency [syn: dependance, dependency]

  2. being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) [syn: addiction, dependency, habituation]

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Usage examples of "dependence".

You have to recollect, as the Conservative acutely suggests, that her timidities, at present urging her to support Establishments, pertain to her state of dependence.

Notwithstanding the respectful civility expressed by the usurper towards the widow of Severus, she descended with a painful struggle into the condition of a subject, and soon withdrew herself, by a voluntary death, from the anxious and humiliating dependence.

If there can be no question of the dependence of the emancipation movement on the Jews, the dependence of the Jews on the emancipatory movement is very real.

She fought it hard, for what it represented-not strength and fem independence, but obedient dependence.

The worst trick that Dame Fortune can play upon an intelligent young man is to place him under the dependence of a fool.

As the warmth spread through him and the pain retreated he felt both grateful to have the bottle and resentful of his dependence on Hoon and Timon.

Statements, the inaccuracy of which may easily be ascertained, are again and again repeated, until it would almost seem that upon reiteration of error and untruth a certain degree of dependence has been placed for the creation of prejudice against reform.

Henry, observing the low condition of the crown, had laid a scheme for restoring his own authority, by acting as umpire between the parties, by moderating their differences, and by reducing both to a dependence upon himself.

Key to your mothering style are your feelings about dependence and independence, permissiveness and control, safety and danger, giving and withholding, intimacy and the expression of feelings.

Rather, these are events that arise in dependence on outer phenomena such as electromagnetic radiation and on the inner workings of the brain.

I believe if two authors, two women, or two pietists, were placed alone upon a desert isle, they would forget their dependence upon each other, and commence intriguing at once.

The fact already stated, that a form of moist gangrene, resembling hospital gangrene, was quite common in this foul atmosphere, in cases of dysentery, both with and without the existence of the disease upon the entire surface, not only demonstrates the dependence of the disease upon the state of the constitution, but proves in the clearest manner that neither the contact of the poisonous matter of gangrene, nor the direct action of the poisonous atmosphere upon the ulcerated surfaces is necessary to the development of the disease.

The doctrines of apostasy, dependence on grace for salvation, necessity of atonement, and special influence of the Holy Spirit, were all thought to be alarming doctrines.

The recent loss of her child, the death of Welbeck, of which she was soon apprized, her total dependence upon those with whom she was placed, who, however, had always treated her without barbarity or indecorum, were the calamities that weighed down her spirits.

The really perilous course lies in preserving the status quo and institutionalizing our past failed policies: open borders, unlimited immigration, dependence on cheap and illegal labor, obsequious deference to Mexico City, erosion of legal statutes, multiculturalism in our schools, and a general breakdown in the old assimilationist model.