Usually means: Relying on something else for support.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. dependent: Merriam-Webster
  2. dependent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dependent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dependent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dependent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dependent, dependent: Wordnik
  7. dependent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dependent: Wiktionary
  9. dependent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dependent (dependant): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dependent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dependent: Dictionary.com
  13. dependent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Dependent (grammar), Dependent (law), Dependent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Dependent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. dependent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. dependent: Rhymezone
  18. dependent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. dependent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. dependent: FreeDictionary.org
  21. dependent: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. dependent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. dependent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. dependent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. dependent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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

Business (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. dependent: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. dependent: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. dependent: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. DEPENDENT: Accounting Glossary
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. Dependent: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  10. Dependent: Glossary of Health Care Terms
  11. MSN Money (No longer online)
  12. Dependent: Investopedia
  13. dependent: Legal dictionary
  14. Dependent: Financial dictionary
  15. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  16. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dependent: Encyclopedia

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

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Misunderstood Physics Terms (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Relying upon; depending upon.
adjective:  (statistics) Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
adjective:  (of Irish/Manx/Scottish (Gaelic) verb forms) Used after a particle (with one or two exceptions), such as those which express questions, subordinate clauses, and negative sentences.
adjective:  (medicine) Of part of the body: positioned lower than the heart, like the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
adjective:  Hanging down.
noun:  A person who relies on another for support or sustenance, particularly financial support.
noun:  (grammar) An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
noun:  (grammar) The aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but preceded by a particle to form the negative or a tense form. Found in Greek and in the Gaelic languages.
noun:  (philosophy) dependent (origination), in Buddhism, the idea that the existence of everything is conditional and dependent on a cause, and that nothing happens fortuitously or by chance.

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