dependent

CEFRB1

/dɪˈpɛndənt/

adjective · noun

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01
adjective
Needing someone or something else for support.
02
noun
A person who relies on another for money or care.

Examples

The taste of wine is largely dependent upon the weather.
When talking about your last results, it is dependent on the last examination.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 2
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 2

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adjective

Extra meanings

Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
Used after a particle (with one or two exceptions), such as those which express questions, subordinate clauses, and negative sentences.
Relying upon; depending upon.

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In context

At that point I was dependent on financial aid for my tuition.
With two children and an ailing mother, she had three dependents in all.
A woman with several dependent children

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The formula for finding the probability of one event followed by a dependent event is written P(A, B) = P(A) × P(B/A) where P(B/A) is read “the probability of B given A.”
1994, Kathryn Stout, Maximum Math, page 217
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.
2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19
Within the GMM framework, the distribution of returns conditional on the market return can be both serially dependent and conditionally heteroscedastic.
2005, Alejandro Balbás, Rosario Romera, Esther Ruiz, Recent Advances in Applied Probability, Springer, page 49
Is it possible to find events A, B of Ω so that A and B are independent? The answer to this simple and interesting problem is no. A probability space (Ω,Σ,P) is called a “dependent probability space” if there are no nontrivial independent events in Ω, (Ω,Σ,P) is called an independent space otherwise.
2006, M.M. Rao, Randall J. Swift, Probability Theory with Applications (Second Edition), Springer, page 87
Several groups have shown that the gravitational distribution of pleural pressure is much more uniform when animals are in a prone rather than in a supine position, […] After volume-infusion-induced pulmonary oedema, Ppl was positive in the dependent lung regions in supine animals but much less positive in those in the prone position.
2008 February 17, Umberto Lucangelo, Paolo Pelosi, Walter A. Zin, Andrea Aliverti, Respiratory System and Artificial Ventilation, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 198

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Origin

adjective

From Middle English dependaunt, dependent, from Middle French dependant (present participle of dependre (“to depend”)) and Latin dēpendēns (present participle of dēpendeō (“to depend”)). By surface analysis, depend + -ent.

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adjective

A young child is completely blank on parents for food and shelter.