Usually means: Relying on something for support.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. depending: Merriam-Webster
  2. depending: Collins English Dictionary
  3. depending: Vocabulary.com
  4. Depending, depending: Wordnik
  5. depending: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. depending: Wiktionary
  7. Depending, depending: Dictionary.com
  8. depending: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Depending: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Depending: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. depending: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. depending: FreeDictionary.org
  13. depending: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. depending: Idioms

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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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