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UK
/dɪpˈɛnd/
]
[ US /dɪˈpɛnd/ ]
[ US /dɪˈpɛnd/ ]
VERB
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have faith or confidence in
You can bet on that!
Look to your friends for support
Depend on your family in times of crisis
you can count on me to help you any time -
be contingent upon (something that is elided)
That depends
How To Use depend In A Sentence
- The speech was brimming with ideas for rewarding work and reducing dependency. Times, Sunday Times
- The following years were characterized by rifts with Russia, in which the Ukraine jealously guarded its own independence against its overbearing neighbour.
- They have recognized that their business depends on world of mouth, and that world of mouth is based on customer satisfaction.
- Depending on the size of your pippy bag, the proportions will be all wrong, and it will look a bit like a three-dimensional stick person with a huge bloated hydrocephalic head, but don't worry about that. Hooting Yard
- 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. A Disclaimer for Behe?
- We had engaged a very nice mare and stanhope, which we knew we could depend upon, when, the day before the race, the chestnut was declared lame, and not a presentable four-legged animal was to be hired in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846
- The welfare state was not set up to support vast families or single mothers in inter-generational welfare dependency. We deserve a fair society, but it won't be created by a vendetta against the poor
- The transfer of control to the patient also provides the priceless gift of independence. Times, Sunday Times
- First, the entire science of astronomy had depended on careful measurement from the very beginning.
- Its independence may encourage it to pursue a course of narrow self-interest rather than the public interest. Financial Markets, Institutions and Money