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dependency

noun as in reliance

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It is now a so called Crown Dependency, meaning it falls under the sovereignty of  the British Crown, but is not part of the U.K.

So the dependency story is strange and uneven, and especially nasty when it comes to women.

All of this, of course, is carried on in the age of extreme welfare dependency and of computer addiction.

And needless to say, smoking dope in the past month is not evidence of abuse or dependency.

Too many Americans—including Christians—are afraid that helping the poor will create ‘dependency.’

Occasional gifts do not prove dependency, yet purely voluntary contributions may establish dependency.

On our arriving at the next village, a dependency of Father Ambrosio's, we were invited into the house of the commandant.

He died regretted, in the year this dependency was colonised.

It was the pinnacle from which hung as a dependency all the eldest of families.

The revolt of one great dependency brought with it a threatened revolt from another.

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On this page you'll find 15 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dependency, such as: addiction, colony, and need.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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