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dependency
/dɪˈpɛndənsi/
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What does dependency mean?
noun
- A state of dependence; a refusal to exercise initiative.
- Something dependent on, or subordinate to, something else
- The status of being a legal dependent; the relationship between a dependent and their provider.
More meanings (4)
noun
- A colony, or a territory subject to rule by an external power.
- A dependence on a habit-forming substance such as a drug or alcohol.
- Reliance on the functionality provided by some other, external component.
- An external component whose functionality is relied on.
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IPA pronunciation
/dɪˈpɛndənsi/
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Contemporary philanthropy, I believe, recognizes that extreme poverty and overcrowded slums are veritable breeding-grounds of epidemics, disease, delinquency and dependency.
Although one of the government's main priorities is to reduce this dependency, this situation is not likely to improve for years to come.
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The monopoly is the principal badge of their dependency, and it is the sole fruit which has hitherto been gathered from that dependency.
Meantime our Government in each dependency is upholding the traditions of civil liberty and increasing popular control which might be expected under American auspices.
The dependency of one organic being on another, as of a parasite on its prey, lies generally between beings remote in the scale of nature.