Usually means: Rely on someone or something.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word depend:

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

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Depend (diaper), depend: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. depend: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Depend (diaper), depend: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. depend: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

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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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