interdependent
They need our market, and we need their energy, and so there is an interdependence.
People should acknowledge their interdependence with others and with the earth itself.
He spoke of the growing interdependence of countries sharing goods and services.

interdependence | American Dictionary

interdependence
noun[ U ]
us/ˌɪn·tər·dɪˈpen·dəns/
the fact of depending on each other:
our interdependence as a global society
earth science
Interdependence is also the idea that everything in nature is connected to and depends on every other thing.

interdependence | Business English

interdependence
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ˌɪntədɪˈpendəns/us
if there is an interdependence between two or more things, they depend on each other:
the interdependence between global trading partners
interdependence with sthA company's interdependence with its suppliers means that if one fails, others may follow.
The head of the supermarket chain said he recognized the interdependence of businesses and the communities in which they operate.

Examples of interdependence

interdependence
The interdependence of the definitions of theory and of subject terrain is apparent in other disciplines.
In addition, both economic interdependence and joint membership in international organizations are not statistically significant.
Many of the smaller states in the region, despite their developmentalist-based successes, were poorly equipped to address and manage their high levels of interdependence sensitivity.
The first is a trend towards greater interdependence, and the second is a catastrophic element that disrupts some portion of this interdependence.
In both studies the emphasis is on the interdependence between social groupings and actual physical houses.
The notion of positive interdependence, therefore, has great resonance with devolving power relationships and engaging participants in meaningful learning experiences.
As this example shows, the interdependence of moral and intellectual traits opened a channel through which social norms and cultural values could flow.
While recent theoretical work has emphasized the interdependence of different markers of modality, this insight has not yet found its re-ection in existing grammar books.
There should be more examination of the criteria and methods of their underlying sources and their degree of interdependence.
Some theories stress the evolutionary interdependence between self- and other- mental awareness.
What were once clearly defined professional demarcation lines will become blurred and what once was pride of commercial independence will become constructive interdependence.
Although the study was of women, the authors developed their hypotheses on the basis that patterns of 'interdependence' and independence differ for men and women.
Their predictions were that single women would have higher independence needs and lower 'interdependence' needs than married women (unfortunately, singlehood was not clearly defined).
The interdependence of age, period and cohort in any study makes it mathematically impossible to separate out all three effects.
The bootstrap sampling was based on stories rather than individual questions, to take into account the interdependence among questions of the same story.
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