Meaning of dependent in English

dependent

adjective

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dependent adjective (NEEDING HELP)

needing the support of something or someone in order to continue existing or operating:

He has three dependent children.

It's very easy to become dependent on sleeping pills.

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Most children remain dependent on their parents while at university.
The number of single-parent families dependent on the state has risen enormously in recent years.
He is dependent on his father for support.
He's still financially dependent on his parents.
The charity is totally dependent on the Church's bounty.

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Being based on or depending on something

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dependent adjective (DECIDED BY)

dependent on/upon sth

influenced or decided by something:

Whether I get into college or not is dependent on how good my grades are.

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The amount of tax you pay is dependent on how much you earn.
I don't know whether we're going yet - it's dependent on whether Carlo comes back in time.
The amount of time you get off is dependent on how many hours you work.
The sum that you can borrow is dependent on your salary.
Whether we take a holiday or not is dependent on how much time Roger can take off from work.

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Being based on or depending on something

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dependent

noun [ C ]

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/dɪˈpen.dənt/ us

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US spelling of dependant

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Family: relations in general

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(Definition of dependent from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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dependent

noun [ C ]

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/dɪˈpen·dənt/

a person who is financially supported by another person:

Jack and Marion have four dependents.

dependent

adjective

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/dɪˈpen·dənt/

needing the support of something or someone in order to continue existing or operating:

She has three dependent children.

West Virginia’s economy is highly dependent on the mining industry.

Grapes need a long, slow ripening period, and that is dependent on temperature.

(Definition of dependent from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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The philosophical concept of dependent moral status thus makes a crucial appeal to the ethical principle of beneficence.

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However patient participation activities were reported to be variable, dependent on the motivation and interest of individual general practices.

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Deputies are therefore highly dependent on their parties.

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Then, through the paths of the digraph representing the design problem decomposition, the dependent descriptor will eventually acquire its value.

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The intercept was assumed to be random in order to take within-subject correlations of the dependent variables into account for statistical inference.

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To our knowledge, there is no complete account of the meta-theoretical properties of pattern-matching in dependent type theory.

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Should other dependent reasons enter the picture, then it is not at all clear that the (normal) goal of arbitration would be thwarted.

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Part of hospitals' revenues was then made dependent upon the number of patients treated and the patient mix.

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Is it language-type dependent structural properties of the languages involved in the contact situations?

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This similarity yields equivalent performance in tasks where performance is dependent on the new semantic representation.

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Most values on the dependent variable for this analysis are around 5 per cent, while a few are dispersed at very high levels.

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Regression trees separate independent variables that, together, change the dependent variable and create multiple groupings to explain the data.

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Money transfers fail because they enable the local people to carry more risk and make them less dependent on income from formal employment.

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Everyone is dependent on everyone else to produce sound resulting in a truly collaborative situation.

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For instance, one could take into account a theory of dependent and impredicative types.

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Translations of dependent

in Chinese (Traditional)

需要協助, 需要供養的，需要照料的, 依賴的…

Meaning of dependent in English

dependent adjective (NEEDING HELP)

dependent adjective (DECIDED BY)

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