dependent vs dependant
Definitions
noun
- a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)
adjective
- addicted to a drug
- (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence
- contingent on something else
- relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed
- held from above and hanging down
Examples
The remaining three evolutionary forces are nonadaptive in the sense that they are not a function of the fitness properties of individuals: mutation is the ultimate source of variation on which natural selection acts, recombination assorts variation within and among chromosomes, and genetic drift ensures that gene frequencies will deviate a bit from generation to generation independent of other forces.
An asylum seeker with insulin dependent diabetes has recently had her claim for asylum rejected.
John Sayles is often hailed as the king of independent cinema, so it is little wonder that his latest movie, Silver City, was able to attract such a mouth-watering cast.
Definitions
noun
- a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)
adjective
- addicted to a drug
- contingent on something else
Examples
Only students studying for more than 12 months will be allowed to bring their dependants.
There are approximately 12 million migrants with their dependants living in the EU countries.
All independent and dependant taluks of various denominations were thus turned into independent zamindaris.
