What is "interdependent"

Usage examples of "interdependent".

So while it was desire for revenue that prompted the early sales of the public domain in the Mississippi Valley, the nation got in return not only means to help pay its Revolution debt, but, incidentally, settlements of highly individualistic, self-dependent, and interdependent pioneers, gathered about one highly paternalistic or maternalistic institution--the public school.

You will note that these two timelines form an interdependent cluster with a theoretical third line, one to which we do not have access.

You see how searchingly and co-ordinately interdependent and anthropomorphous it all is.

But on Earth they had entered the servitude, so to speak, of biological evolution and only in that context amazed man with subtlety—the subtlety of the complex bondings that combined to form organisms and the interdependent hierarchies of species.

Also, if you are expected to be a strong, unemotional, independent, competitive, and aggressive "tiger" at work, it is hard to come home and be a "pussy cat," being an interdependent equal, washing the dishes, bathing the kids, sharing your self-doubts and remorse about conflicts at work, and being soft and caringly intimate with others (Fasteau, 1974).

The ensuing financial chaos - with bank transfer networks, stock markets, bond markets, trading systems, credit networks, data communication lines all badly disrupted or destroyed - could, according to analysts, have caused a sufficiently powerful shock to the interdependent global financial systems to trigger a worldwide recession.

Now, our lives are so interdependent that they must, in the future, develop with a common purpose.

The case was analogous, he argued, to the interdependent relation between WESCAC and the Tower Hall Clock, which he had explained to me in the observatory, and was reflected also in the problem of the clock's accuracy, which, like all problems involving final standards and first principles, could be only academic.