English-Dutch translations for dependent

• afhankelijk
  We mogen niet van externe leveranciers afhankelijk zijn. We cannot be dependent on energy supplies.
  De Europese Unie is afhankelijk van de import van energie. The European Union is dependent on energy imports.
  De Unie is steeds sterker afhankelijk van de invoer van energie. Today, the Union is increasingly dependent on energy imports.
• dependent
• onderhorig
• onzelfstandig
  We moeten de interne markt dat gestuntel eindelijk afleren, want dat gaat vooral ten koste van alle vormen van onzelfstandig werk. We need to get the single market out of the habit of moving in this way, for it does so at the expense of dependent employment in all its forms.

Definition of dependent

• Relying upon; depending upon
• Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event
• Used in questions, negative sentences and after certain particles and prepositions
• Hanging down
• One who relies on another for support
• An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners

Examples

• At that point I was dependent on financial aid for my tuition
• a dependent bough or leaf
• With two children and an ailing mother, she had three dependents in all.

Related words

• independent
• independently
• interdependent
• dependently
• independentize
• Independentism
• independentist
• independentism
• weather-dependent