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dependent

A person who relies on another person for support. With two children and an ailing mother, she had three dependents in all ... (In British English, this meaning is spelt dependant.) An element in a phrase that is not the head. (Greek grammar) the aorist subjunctive form of a verb; or non-past, perfective form of a verb.

dependent

relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed dependent children dependent on moisture contingent on something else (= dependant) a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) (= subordinate) (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence addicted to a drug (= subject) being under the power or sovereignty of another or others subject peoples a dependent prince (= pendent, pendant) held from above a pendant bunch of grapes

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Simple sentences

The economy of the island is dependent on the fishing industry.
The boy is totally dependent on his parents.
Our trip is dependent on the weather.
He taught his students how we were all dependent on each other.
He is still dependent on his parents.
He is totally dependent on his parents.
He was no longer dependent on his parents.
She does not want to be dependent on her parents.
The reward is dependent on your success.
He's financially dependent on his wife.
A minor is dependent on his parents.
Tom is still dependent on his parents.
Don't be too dependent on others.
We are dependent on each other.
Success is dependent on your effort.
Her husband is heavily dependent on drugs.
Tom and Mary are dependent on each other.
Dick had been dependent on his parents, but now he's independent of them.
She's dependent on her husband.
Tom is financially dependent on his wife.
Tom is totally dependent on his parents.

Movie subtitles

I'm as dependent as a baby that doesn't know how to get anything except cry for it.
Don't be silly. You've become so dependent on me. you won't be happy until I feel the same way about you.
The only place left is a German hotel, but you're a dependent.
I wonder if they are, in any way, dependent on each other?
Some for each dependent.
You want him wholly and utterly dependent.
Bernie accused me of wanting you completely dependent, of wanting to control your life.
They're dependent mostly on winds and thermal currents to carry them along.
My mother and I were entirely dependent upon Victor.
I don't like it when you're limp and dependent, or odd and wayward.
I've got a job, a secretary, a mother two ex-wives and several bartenders dependent upon me and I don't intend to disappoint them by getting myself killed!
Being physically dependent on other people doesn't build up your seIf-confidence.
Do you think that I Iike being tied to this chair dependent on anyone who can spare me a moment?
She has to be dependent on me.
You're far too dependent on your flying.
And then, as he learnt more about civilization he'd realize he was dependent on his rich wife.
No need for him to be dependent.
He don't want you to be no little stray cat like you are now, dependent on other folks.
I've got someplace to go. I'm not dependent on.
I'm not dependent on you?! Man. you're juiced!
Or do you perhaps think I'm dependent on you?
Whether you think that I'm dependent on you?
And he's. not dependent on her!
Whether you think that I'm dependent on you.
I'm not dependent on you.
Do you think I'm dependent on you?
Do you perhaps think I'm dependent on her?
Whether you think that I'm dependent on her, eh?
I'm not dependent on you?!
I'm not dependent on her!
You have a talent for making a woman feel close and dependent on you.
Because then you're dependent on money.
Then you're dependent on money, not yourself.
My sister Agnese, unmarried and still dependent, officially compromised.
Well I guess. one gets very dependent on one's advocate as time goes on.

News and current affairs

Citizens, it was thought, had to become more self-reliant; government welfare programs were making everyone soft and dependent.
In some of the poorest countries in the world - ie, those most dependent on aid - the IMF has argued that foreign aid should not be listed as revenue in a government's budget calculations.
This would also involve making the choice of the European Commission's president dependent on the outcome of the EP elections.
Russia's economy is more dependent on gas and oil than ever before.
If compensation for wrongs to the Palestinians was to be the guiding principle, there were always better ways of going about it than to found a rickety, poverty-ridden new country dependent on foreign aid.
And, partly because an American child's lifetime prospects are more dependent on his or her parents' income and education than in other advanced countries, the US now has the least equality of opportunity of any advanced country.
For Eberstadt, the problem is that dependence on government is emasculating, and that too many people are dependent on government.
Finally, it would increase the relative vulnerability of America's main strategic rival, China, which is becoming increasingly dependent on Middle East energy supplies.
The US will remain concerned about ensuring the security of energy supplies for its Asian allies, which, like China, are increasingly dependent on the region's oil exporters.
Economically, it mainly relies on energy and commodity exports, and in its modernization efforts, it is largely dependent on the West, particularly Europe.
The IMF, World Bank, and WTO should not only report to, but be dependent upon this new UN reformed structure.
Indeed, the currency of any country that is significantly dependent on commodity exports has suffered.
Georgia's economic success has been largely dependent on direct foreign investment, for which there is hardly any appetite today.
Argentina, by contrast, is a highly gas-dependent country with diminishing reserves - equivalent to less than eight years of production.
With every country largely controlling its own energy policy, Europe's energy market has become inefficient and excessively dependent on Russian supplies.
Once again, African readers are being shortchanged, remaining dependent on foreign reportage in order to grasp the enormity of what is transpiring.
So, despite the rise in the household saving rate, unless federal government policies change to shrink America's future budget deficits, the US will continue to be dependent on capital inflows from the rest of the world.
Over the coming century, developing nations will be increasingly dependent on food imports from developed countries.
In a coalition-dependent parliamentary system, that could be all she needs to become prime minister.
In particular, slowing global economic demand poses daunting challenges for many Asian economies, especially those that are more dependent on export-led growth.
The US and Asia are more mutually dependent than ever for their economic growth and prosperity.

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