Definition of Dependency

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Dependency

State of being dependent; dependence; state of being subordinate; subordination; concatenation; connection; reliance; trust.

A thing hanging down; a dependence.

That which is attached to something else as its consequence, subordinate, satellite, and the like.

A territory remote from the kingdom or state to which it belongs, but subject to its dominion; a colony; as, Great Britain has its dependencies in Asia, Africa, and America.

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Dependency Quotations

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
Albert Ellis

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.
Paul Harvey

There are now more teens going into treatment for marijuana dependency than for all other drugs combined.
John Walters

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.
David Attenborough

From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.
George Berkeley

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.
Fritz Perls

We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability.
Paul Gillmor

We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.
Bobby Jindal

Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat.
Jim Costa

We have broken the cycle of dependency. People have found out they're better off working.
John Engler

Dependency Translations

dependency in German is Schutzgebiet
dependency in Hungarian is gyarmat

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