Usually means: Reliance on conditions or factors.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. depends: Merriam-Webster
  2. depends: Collins English Dictionary
  3. depends: Vocabulary.com
  4. Depends, depends: Wordnik
  5. depends: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. depends: Wiktionary
  7. depends: Dictionary.com
  8. depends: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Depends: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. depends: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. depends: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. depends: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. depends: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. depends: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. depends: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (depend)

verb:  (intransitive, followed by on or upon, formerly also by of) To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition; to hinge on.
verb:  (intransitive, usually followed by on or upon) To trust; to have confidence; to rely.
verb:  (now literary) To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.
verb:  (archaic) To be pending; to be undetermined or undecided.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to be contingent or dependent on; to set as a necessity.
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