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dependency
  • Conjugation : pl  dependencies
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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

dependency [dɪ'pεndənsɪ] [dɪ'pendənsɪ]
  1. 1. noun 依赖依靠信任信赖从属隶属
  2. 2. noun 从属物,附属物
  3. 3. noun 属地属国附庸

Collins English-English Dictionary

dependency [dɪ'pεndənsɪ]
  1. 1. n a territory subject to a state on which it does not border
  2. 2. n a dependent or subordinate person or thing
  3. 3. n [psychol] overreliance by a person on another person or on a drug, etc
  4. 4. n another word for dependence

Examples

Children may steal out of a fear of dependency.
孩子们可能出于对缺乏独立的恐惧而偷偷溜走。
After a long dependency on heroin she has been clean for 4 years.
以前在很长一段时间里她依赖海洛因而活,但是到目前为止,她已经戒掉毒瘾4年了。
a shortage of high-dependency beds

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