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Word entry · 9 letters

dependent

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"Relying on another"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /dɪˈpɛndənt/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted ddeeennptStarts with DEnds with T1 cluesVery common crossword word
1D2E3P4E5N6D7E8N9T

Definitions

  1. addicted to a drug

Word origin

From Middle English dependaunt, dependent, from Middle French dependant (present participle of dependre (“to depend”)) and Latin dēpendēns (present participle of dēpendeō (“to depend”)). By surface analysis, depend + -ent.

Used in a sentence

  • At that point I was dependent on financial aid for my tuition.
  • The formula for finding the probability of one event followed by a dependent event is written P(A, B) = P(A) × P(B/A) where P(B/A) is read “the probability of B given A.”
  • Within the GMM framework, the distribution of returns conditional on the market return can be both serially dependent and conditionally heteroscedastic.

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