Usually means: Dependence on someone or something.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word Reliance:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. reliance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. reliance: Merriam-Webster
  3. reliance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. reliance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. reliance: Collins English Dictionary
  6. reliance: Vocabulary.com
  7. Reliance, reliance: Wordnik
  8. reliance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. reliance: Wiktionary
  10. reliance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. reliance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. reliance: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. reliance: Dictionary.com
  14. reliance: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. reliance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Reliance (automobile), Reliance (horse), Reliance (skipjack), Reliance (yacht), Reliance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Reliance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. reliance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. reliance: Rhymezone
  20. Reliance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. reliance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. reliance: FreeDictionary.org
  23. reliance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. reliance: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. reliance: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. reliance: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. reliance: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. reliance: Legal dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reliance: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reliance: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (reliance)

▸ noun:  The act of relying (on or in someone or something); trust.
▸ noun:  The condition of being reliant or dependent.
▸ noun:  (dated) Anything on which to rely; ground of trust.
▸ noun:  A person or thing which relies on another.

Similar:
trust, credit, believing, betrustment, creadit, commitment, entrustment, innixion, reclination, recumbence, more...

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

Types:
trust, faith, confidence, dependency, interdependence, more...

Phrases:
reliance on, self reliance, reasonable reliance, detrimental reliance, reliance interest, more...

Adjectives:
self, heavy, greater, much, little, exclusive, excessive, chief, main, over, firm

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Similar:
trust, credit, believing, betrustment, creadit, commitment, entrustment, innixion, reclination, recumbence, more...

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

Types:
trust, faith, confidence, dependency, interdependence, more...

Phrases:
reliance on, self reliance, reasonable reliance, detrimental reliance, reliance interest, Reliance Industries, Reliance Retail, Reliance Entertainment, Reliance Digital, Reliance Group, more...

Adjectives:
self, heavy, greater, much, little, exclusive, excessive, chief, main, over, firm

Colors:
    blue,     gray,     teal,     indigo,     sapphire, more...



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