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Another word for dependency

Noun

  1. An area subject to rule by an outside power

    2. See also:

    politics

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Another word for dependency

Noun

  1. The state of being dependent

    2. See also:

    dependence

  2. A territory or state subject to the dominion of another state

    3. See also:

    territory

    colony

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Sentence Examples

  • In the same year Bokhara became a dependency of Russia.

  • The bond creates more than dependency; it gives you a helluva lot of influence over him.

  • New Sweden thus passed into the control of the Dutch, and became a dependency of New Netherland.

  • New Sweden thus passed into the control of the Dutch, and became a dependency of New Netherland.

  • The little port of Gwadar, on the Makran coast of the Arabian Sea, a station of the Persian Gulf telegraph system, is still a dependency of Oman.

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