reliant

reliance | American Dictionary

reliance
noun[ U ]
us/rɪˈlɑɪ·əns/
the condition of depending on something or someone:
She said that there is too much reliance on meat in our diet.

reliant

adjectiveus/rɪˈlɑɪ·ənt/
The nation is still reliant on imported oil.

reliance | Business English

reliance
noun[ S or U ]
uk /rɪˈlaɪəns/us
the state of needing or depending on something or someone in order to be able to do something:
reliance on sth/sbIreland has a greater reliance on oil for electricity generation than most other EU countries.
increasing/growing/heavy reliance on sthThe company's increasing reliance on subcontractors involves several risks, including reduced control over pricing.
We are in talks with potential partners in Asia as part of our strategy to reduce our reliance on the American market.

Examples of reliance

reliance
This may include planning a further move to housing offering a greater degree of shelter, or even greater reliance on families.
Indeed, the presupposition of reliance on such standards is that they have survived similar critical scrutiny.
He thereby wished to purify mathematics of any reliance on the external world.
The survey research also confirms the primary consequence of increasing reliance on state support.
The reliance on economic framing of regulation, though, signaled a major change in rhetorical emphasis.
Limitations of this study include the relatively small sample size of the control group and reliance on correctional staff controls.
Because these words have a higher degree of lexicalization, more reliance is placed on storage and less reliance on processing.
First, cues can be genetically encoded, as in the human reliance on bitterness as a cue to unpalatability.
Therefore, increased reliance has to be placed on pre-production quality control, especially for obtaining, testing and housing vaccine donors free of harmful infections.
The culture of dependence hypothesis implies that reliance on government assistance - particularly welfare - should produce discernible effects on all of the dependent variables.
Or should they be left alone to the less well-defined realm of professional ethics and its practiced reliance on case-specific consensus?
In so doing it questions the logic and justification for exclusive reliance on judicial interpretation of a bill of rights.
At the same time, however, governments too had a positive stake in pursuing stabilization through extensive if not nearly exclusive reliance on monetary austerity.
The e neo-reformists questioned the exclusive reliance on the proletariat for the socialist revolution.
Formally, and more generally, an exclusive reliance on accounting prices is justified only if production technologies are convex.
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Collocations withreliance

reliance

These are words often used in combination with reliance.

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continued reliance on
A continuedreliance on hospitals and advanced technologies does little to address health inequities or to improve population health.
excessive reliance on
His aim was precisely to shield faith from the excessivereliance on human reason and the intellect that he attributed to his orthodox opponents.
exclusive reliance on
In so doing it questions the logic and justification for exclusivereliance on judicial interpretation of a bill of rights.
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