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依存 — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • depend verb To rely on someone or something for support, help, or a particular outcome.
  • dependence noun The state of relying on someone or something else.
  • dependent adj Relying on someone or something for support, existence, or success.

Senses

依存 is used for these senses in English:

  • depend (intransitive, followed by on or upon, formerly also by of like independent does) To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition
  • dependence The state of being dependent, of relying upon another.
  • dependent Relying upon; depending upon.

depend — full definition

  1. verb To rely on someone or something for support, help, or a particular outcome.
  2. verb To vary according to circumstances; used to say an answer isn't fixed.

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