Definition of Rely

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Definition of Rely

Rely

To rest with confidence, as when fully satisfied of the veracity, integrity, or ability of persons, or of the certainty of facts or of evidence; to have confidence; to trust; to depend; -- with on, formerly also with in.

Related Definitions:

Ability, Also, As, Certainty, Confidence, Depend, Evidence, Formerly, Fully, Have, In, Integrity, Of, On, Or, Rest, Satisfied, The, To, Trust, Veracity, When, With

Rely Quotations

We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
Barack Obama

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.
Peter Drucker

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
Walt Whitman

A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
Plautus

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
Epictetus

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.
David Ogilvy

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
Vladimir Lenin

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
Rene Descartes

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Mia Hamm

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
Frank Zappa

Rely Translations

rely in French is fions, fient, fiez
rely in German is vertrauen
rely in Spanish is confiar
rely in Swedish is lita

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