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US
/dɪˈpɛndəns/
]
[ UK /dɪpˈɛndəns/ ]
[ UK /dɪpˈɛndəns/ ]
NOUN
- the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else
- being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
How To Use dependence In A Sentence
- The following years were characterized by rifts with Russia, in which the Ukraine jealously guarded its own independence against its overbearing neighbour.
- Some children may require a great deal of support as they acquire the social skills necessary for maximum independence.
- Teenage children begin to assert their independence and this can lead to a good deal of friction in the family.
- Teenage children begin to assert their independence and this can lead to a good deal of friction in the family.
- The transfer of control to the patient also provides the priceless gift of independence. Times, Sunday Times
- Its independence may encourage it to pursue a course of narrow self-interest rather than the public interest. Financial Markets, Institutions and Money
- The Guidance concentrates on the organizational status of internal audit and the objectivity of internal auditors in achieving the requisite independence.
- She said the new playground would help give the children greater independence.
- There is, and always has been, a co-dependence between the public and private sectors. For his next trick, Mr Osborne must offer us a bold new world | Will Hutton
- So numerous and various were the influences, formative and impellent, which combined to bring the colonies up to the precise ripening-point of their independence, as to make it difficult to assign each its proper force. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876