dependency
pronunciation
How to pronounce dependency in British English:
UK [dɪˈpendənsi]
How to pronounce dependency in American English:
US [dɪˈpendənsi]
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- Noun:
- lack of independence or self-sufficiency
- being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)
- a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
Word Origin
- dependency
- 1590s (adj.), 1610s (n.); see dependent + -cy. Originally also dependancy, on the French model, but the Latinate form gradually pushed this into disuse; see -ance. Meaning "territory subordinate to another nation" is recorded from 1680s.
Example
- 1. But this dependency has a cost in human rights .
- 2. The film explores the daily dependency and friction between them in their jobs .
- 3. Some economists say his return to the kremlin makes it less likely that russia will carry out much-needed changes such as pension reforms and reducing russia 's dependency on natural resources .
- 4. If for some reason , a system comes up and prepares to take over a service group , a service group heartbeat configured at the bottom of the dependency tree first checks if any other system is writing to the disk .
- 5. Failed to set resource dependency flags .