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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dependent/dɪˈpendənt/
▶adjective
- 1 (dependent on) contingent on or determined by.
- 2 relying on someone or something for financial or other support.
■ (dependent on) unable to do without: dependent on drugs.
- 3 Grammar subordinate to another clause, phrase, or word.
– derivatives
dependence noun,
dependently adverb.
dependence noun,
dependently adverb.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dependant /dɪˈpendənt/ (also dependent)
▶noun a person who relies on another, especially a family member, for financial support.
'dependent' also found in these Oxford entries:
addicted
- catch-22
- categorical imperative
- cell
- cling
- clingy
- come
- contingent
- deictic
- dependant
- dependency
- dependent variable
- ectotherm
- endotherm
- endothermic
- externalism
- food chain
- function
- hang
- hue
- idealism
- institutionalize
- interdependent
- knowledge economy
- mendicant
- multifactorial
- notional
- nuclear family
- objective
- ombrotrophic
- original gravity
- pocket
- precarious
- pro-form
- relative
- rely
- satellite
- slave
- subject
- subjective
- subordinate
- subordinate clause
- varactor
- varistor
- vitalism
- wage slave
- Y
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"claim of deficit-neutrality is dependent...
Age-dependent
concentration-dependent line
Connecting dependent clauses with conjunctions
dependent and independent clause ?
Dependent Child(ren)
Dependent clause
dependent clause?
dependent clause?: "I swear, that one’s just a big house cat."
dependent on
Dependent on or depend on
dependent on the financing costs ... and, therefore, <by?> the investment costs ....
dependent on/ based on
dependent on/of
Dependent on/of in this specific context.
dependent on/upon...independent on/of
dependent/dependant
dose-related vs dose-dependent
global-warming-dependent extinctions
lean on=dependent on?
Punctuation of Independent / Dependent Clauses
this is state dependent.
"claim of deficit-neutrality is dependent...
Age-dependent
concentration-dependent line
Connecting dependent clauses with conjunctions
dependent and independent clause ?
Dependent Child(ren)
Dependent clause
dependent clause?
dependent clause?: "I swear, that one’s just a big house cat."
dependent on
Dependent on or depend on
dependent on the financing costs ... and, therefore, <by?> the investment costs ....
dependent on/ based on
dependent on/of
Dependent on/of in this specific context.
dependent on/upon...independent on/of
dependent/dependant
dose-related vs dose-dependent
global-warming-dependent extinctions
lean on=dependent on?
Punctuation of Independent / Dependent Clauses
this is state dependent.
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