Usually means: Reliance on something for support.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. dependency: Merriam-Webster
  2. dependency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dependency: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dependency: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dependency: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dependency, dependency: Wordnik
  7. dependency: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dependency: Wiktionary
  9. dependency: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dependency (dependancy): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dependency: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dependency: Dictionary.com
  13. dependency: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Dependency (UML), Dependency (band), Dependency (computer science), Dependency (disambiguation), Dependency (project management), Dependency: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Dependency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. dependency: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. dependency: Rhymezone
  18. Dependency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. dependency: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. dependency: FreeDictionary.org
  21. dependency: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. dependency: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. dependency: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. dependency: Legal dictionary
  4. dependency: Financial dictionary
  5. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Microsoft Lexicon (No longer online)
  2. dependency: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. dependency: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. dependency: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dependency)

▸ noun:  A state of dependence; a refusal to exercise initiative.
▸ noun:  Something dependent on, or subordinate to, something else:
▸ noun:  The status of being a legal dependent; the relationship between a dependent and their provider.
▸ noun:  A colony, or a territory subject to rule by an external power.
▸ noun:  A dependence on a habit-forming substance such as a drug or alcohol.
▸ noun:  (computing) Reliance on the functionality provided by some other, external component.
▸ noun:  (computing) An external component whose functionality is relied on.

Similar:
dependence, dependance, addiction, nonindependence, counterdependency, passivity, backwardness, nondependence, nonreliance, unreliance, more...

Opposite:
independence, autonomy, self-sufficiency, sovereignty, freedom

Phrases:
chemical dependency, Dependency theory, dependency ratio, dependency needs, drug dependency, more...

Adjectives:
economic, mutual, functional, high, emotional, physical, greater, chemical, total, strong, financial

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Similar:
dependence, dependance, addiction, nonindependence, counterdependency, passivity, backwardness, nondependence, nonreliance, unreliance, more...

Opposite:
independence, autonomy, self-sufficiency, sovereignty, freedom

Phrases:
chemical dependency, Dependency theory, dependency ratio, dependency needs, drug dependency, path dependency, functional dependency, high dependency, dependency exemption, alcohol dependency, more...

Adjectives:
economic, mutual, functional, high, emotional, physical, greater, chemical, total, strong, financial

Colors:
    gray,     blue,     black,     white,     red, more...



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