dependent
di pen duhnt
- n a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)
- a relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed
dependent children
dependent on moisture - s contingent on something else
- a (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence
a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence - s held from above
- s being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
a dependent prince - s addicted to a drug
- But the dependent-care credit is aimed at helping middle-class working parents afford the cost of daily child care, not at helping pay for expensive retreats.
- The amount of dependent-care credit you have available gets reduced by the amount you put in a dependent-care account so if you fund the account with the full $5,000, you .
- Its flotation was entirely dependent on whether the bilge pump could keep up with the leakage.