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dependent — de·pen·dent 1 adj 1: determined or conditioned by another: contingent 2 a: relying on another for esp. financial support b: lacking the necessary means of support or protection and in need of aid from others (as a public agency) have the child… … Law dictionary
Dependent personality disorder — Classification and external resources ICD 10 F60.7 ICD 9 301.6 … Wikipedia
dependent relative revocation — n: a doctrine holding that if the destruction, cancellation, or revocation of a will is dependent on the making of a new will which is not made or is found to be invalid then the original will is still in effect Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of… … Law dictionary
dependent — adj 1 Dependent, contingent, conditional, relative mean having its existence or nature determined by something else. Something is dependent which cannot exist or come into existence by itself quite without aid or support {we are all dependent on… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
Person-to-person lending — (also known as peer to peer lending, peer to peer investing, and social lending; abbreviated frequently as P2P lending) is a certain breed of financial transaction (primarily lending and borrowing, though other more complicated transactions can… … Wikipedia
dependent — [dē pen′dənt, dipen′dənt] adj. [ME < OFr dependant < L dependens, prp. of dependere: see DEPEND] 1. hanging down 2. influenced, controlled, or determined by something else; contingent 3. relying (on another) for support or aid 4.… … English World dictionary
person under guardianship — index dependent Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
Dependent clause — In linguistics, a dependent clause (sometimes called a subordinate clause) is a clause that augments an independent clause with additional information, but which cannot stand alone as a sentence. Dependent clauses modify the independent clause of … Wikipedia
Dependent and independent verb forms — In the Goidelic languages, dependent and independent verb forms are distinct verb forms; each tense of each verb exists in both forms. Verbs are often preceded by a particle which marks negation, or a question, or has some other force. The… … Wikipedia
Dependent States — ▪ 2009 Introduction Europe and the Atlantic. For a list of populated Dependent States, see Table (Dependent States). In May 2008 Ilulissat, Greenland, was the site of an international summit on Arctic sovereignty attended by official… … Universalium
