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What (who) is Dependent - definition

Dependent-marking; Dependent marking

dependent

PERSON WHO RELIES ON ANOTHER AS A PRIMARY SOURCE OF INCOME

Dependent; Dependents; Dependant (law); Dependent (law)

1.

To be dependent on something or someone means to need them in order to succeed or be able to survive.

The local economy is overwhelmingly dependent on oil and gas extraction...

= reliant

ADJ: oft ADJ on/upon n

2.

If one thing is dependent on another, the first thing will be affected or determined by the second.

The treatment of infertility is largely dependent on the ability of couples to pay.

= contingent

? independent

ADJ: v-link ADJ on/upon n

3.

see also dependant

dependent

PERSON WHO RELIES ON ANOTHER AS A PRIMARY SOURCE OF INCOME

Dependent; Dependents; Dependant (law); Dependent (law)

1) n. a person receiving support from another person (such as a parent), which may qualify the party supporting the dependent for an exemption to reduce his/her income taxes. 2) adj. requiring an event to occur, as the fulfillment of a contract is dependent on the expert being available.

dependent

PERSON WHO RELIES ON ANOTHER AS A PRIMARY SOURCE OF INCOME

Dependent; Dependents; Dependant (law); Dependent (law)

adj. dependent for; on, upon (he is dependent on his parents for support)

Wikipedia

Dependent-marking language

A dependent-marking language has grammatical markers of agreement and case government between the words of phrases that tend to appear more on dependents than on heads. The distinction between head-marking and dependent-marking was first explored by Johanna Nichols in 1986, and has since become a central criterion in language typology in which languages are classified according to whether they are more head-marking or dependent-marking. Many languages employ both head and dependent-marking, but some employ double-marking, and yet others employ zero-marking. However, it is not clear that the head of a clause has anything to do with the head of a noun phrase, or even what the head of a clause is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent-marking language

Examples of use of Dependent

1. "They are dependent on us and we are dependent on them.

2. Now the oak tree, dependent on warmth, is increasingly beating the ash – dependent on daylight – into leaf.

3. More straightforward still, if we remain dependent on fossil fuels, then we remain dependent on the countries that produce them.

4. Women – dependent, because they are caring for dependent children – often feel, and are made to feel, inferior for lacking both.

5. Corfu is hugely dependent on British holidaymakers.