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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dependency
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 economic and technological dependencies intact, the work was increasingly vulnerable to the crisis.
▪ When accompanied by minimum subsistence pensions, as in Britain, retirement means economic dependency.
▪ However, studies have documented how increasing economic dependency is the cost of trying to keep families in health and in credit.
▪ It can not be concluded from this, however, that the economic dependency of the elderly population has increased.
high
▪ Freud believed that the depressed person had developed from childhood with high dependency needs.
▪ In the private sector a greater incentive might exist to show a need for higher fees to match high levels of dependency.
structured
▪ In a sense, much modern human life is about structured dependency.
▪ This historical work itself represents a strong challenge to some of the premises which underpin the idea of structured dependency.
■ NOUN
culture
▪ Compliance and complacency are the manifest behaviours associated with an infantile dependency culture.
▪ It is this that leads to the dependency culture predominant among deaf people in integrated education.
▪ In a word, the dependency culture should be replaced by an enterprise one.
ratio
▪ Consequently dependency ratios for future decades are again only best estimates and not real facts.
▪ The bond-dependency ratio peaked this fiscal year, he said.
▪ I shall discuss the implications of the dependency ratio for the construction of family obligations in more detail in chapter 3.
▪ The dependency ratio is expected to top 28 percent next year for the second year in a row, economists said.
▪ There has been an increase in the dependency ratio because of several factors.
▪ Second, the typical dependency ratio assumes that all those aged 16 - 64 are gainfully employed.
▪ The nature of employment is also being affected by the increase in the dependency ratio.
▪ Calculating dependency ratios retrospectively or for current circumstances is not problematic.
theory
▪ This is really not very different from what dependency theories argue.
▪ Articulation of modes of production and dependency theories would view the continued use of these labor forms as beneficial to capitalism.
▪ The discussion is closely linked to the different approaches of modernisation and dependency theories.
welfare
▪ They prevent most of the underclass from being able to free themselves from welfare dependency.
▪ It fosters third-and fourth-generation welfare dependency.
▪ It should come as no surprise that welfare dependency, alcohol dependency, and drug dependency are among our most severe problems.
▪ In many cities, they sank into a vicious cycle of drugs, crime, teenage pregnancy, and welfare dependency.
▪ But his complaints that government programs to aid children only expand welfare dependency earned him a certain public enmity in 1994.
■ VERB
create
▪ We also need to examine how communication technology and economic systems create political and cultural dependency. 5.
▪ We post these warnings because unnatural feeding and artificial care create dependency.
▪ These specialized functions create dependency among those less able to cope.
▪ Thus, factors largely outside the control of the old person can create a dependency upon institutional care.
increase
▪ The problems arise because old age is a period of increasing dependency - materially, physically, socially and emotionally.
▪ However, studies have documented how increasing economic dependency is the cost of trying to keep families in health and in credit.
reduce
▪ However, child benefit has fallen in real value, so there was no justification for reducing the dependency additions.
▪ The expectation from government industrial ReD is one of reducing dependency on imports without wanting to achieve self-sufficiency.
▪ Even less clearly struck has been the Government's attempt to reduce dependency on means-tested welfare.
▪ The Finance Ministry originally came up with a plan in 1990 to reduce bond dependency to 5 percent.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Finally, what looks like a determination to be patriotically self-reliant is simultaneously the opposite: the formalisation of complete dependency.
▪ He must already have begun to be aware that his dependency on alcohol was weakening his creative drive.
▪ It would make possible the provision of vastly improved public services, while reducing dependency upon them.
▪ Oral dependency has to be replaced by what the child can do for himself, on his own initiative.
▪ Psychology rarely explores these theoretical difficulties and dependencies.
▪ She also overcame drug dependencies stemming from painkillers taken for her illnesses.
▪ She suggested that dependency on cigarettes should be seen as another form of drug addiction.
▪ The system incorporates many assumptions about family relationships and dependency.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dependency

Dependency \De*pend"en*cy\, n.; pl. Dependencies.

  1. 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 on the other.
    --Sir J. Reynolds.

    So that they may acknowledge their dependency on the crown of England.
    --Bacon.

  2. A thing hanging down; a dependence.

  3. That which is attached to something else as its consequence, subordinate, satellite, and the like.

    This earth and its dependencies.
    --T. Burnet.

    Modes I call such complex ideas which . . . are considered as dependencies on or affections of substances.
    --Locke.

  4. A territory remote from the kingdom or state to which it belongs, but subject to its dominion; a colony; as, Great Britain has its dependencies in Asia, Africa, and America.

    Note: Dependence is more used in the abstract, and dependency in the concrete. The latter is usually restricted in meaning to 3 and 4.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dependency

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.

Wiktionary
dependency

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; addiction. 5 (context computing English) Reliance on the functionality provided by some other, external component.

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WordNet
dependency

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

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

  3. a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country [syn: colony]

Wikipedia
Dependency (project management)

In a project network, a dependency is a link amongst a project's terminal elements.

The A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) does not define the term dependency, but refers for this term to a logical relationship, which in turn is defined as dependency between two activities, or between an activity and a milestone.

Dependency

Dependency, dependent or depend may refer to:

Dependency (UML)

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 supplier. Two or more elements in this relationship are called tuples.

In the UML, this is indicated by a dashed line pointing from the dependent (or client) to the independent (or supplier) element. The arrow representing a Dependency specifies the direction of a relationship, not the direction of a process.

Dependency (religion)

A dependency, among monastic orders, denotes the relation of a monastic community with a newer community which it has founded elsewhere. The relationship is that of the founding abbey or conventual priory, termed the motherhouse, with a monastery composed of the monks or nuns of the new community, which is called the daughter house. In that situation, the abbot or abbess (or prior or prioress in those monastic congregations which do not have abbots or abbesses) remains the ultimate authority for the affairs of the dependent priory, which is considered an extension of the founding house. This relationship will end at such time as the new community becomes fully autonomous in its own right.

Dependency (band)

Dependency is an American Christian hardcore band, where they primarily play a hardcore punk and melodic hardcore styles of music. They come from Nashville, Tennessee. The band started making music in 2009. The band released an extended play, Convicted, in 2010, with Blood and Ink Records. Their subsequent release, Love Not Wasted, a studio album, was released by Blood and Ink Records, in 2012.

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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.