English-French translations for dependent

• dépendant
  De plus, l'Europe est fortement dépendante des Etats-Unis sur le plan militaire. In military terms European is very dependent on the US.
  Aujourd'hui, l'Union est de plus en plus dépendante des importations d'énergie. Today, the Union is increasingly dependent on energy imports.
  L'UE est dépendante des importations énergétiques pour 53 % de ses besoins. The EU is dependent on energy imports for 53% of its requirements.
• à charge
  Ces personnes à charge sont généralement les enfants de détenues. These dependents are generally the children of female prisoners.
  Il est clair que certaines des familles à charge de ces professeurs sont face à une réelle menace de paupérisation. Clearly a number of the families dependent on these teachers face the real prospect of poverty.

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