Usually means: Depends on something for support.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. relies: Merriam-Webster
  2. relies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. relies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. relies: Vocabulary.com
  5. Relies, relies: Wordnik
  6. relies: Wiktionary
  7. relies: Dictionary.com
  8. relies: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. relies: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. relies: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rely)

▸ verb:  (with on or upon, formerly also with in) to trust; to have confidence in; to depend.
▸ Also see rely


Opposite:
doubts, mistrusts, disbelieves, questions, rejects

Types:
Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, Shintoism, more...

Phrases:
relies on, relies heavily upon, relies on mostly deep results, relies upon, relies on self, more...



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Opposite:
doubts, mistrusts, disbelieves, questions, rejects

Types:
Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, Shintoism, more...

Phrases:
relies on, relies heavily upon, relies on mostly deep results, relies upon, relies on self, a community that relies on each other, one who relies on their own resources, relies heavily, more...




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