reliance
The industry has become more reliant on technology.
She is completely reliant on her parents.
The country is increasingly reliant on imports.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Trusting and not trusting
(you can) depend on/upon itidiom
accept/take something on faithidiom
bank
bank on someone/something
believe
believe in something
distrust
distrustful
distrustful of someone/something
distrustfully
have faith!idiom
mistrustful
mistrustfully
non-confidence
not trust someone an/one inchidiom
put/place your faith in something/someoneidiom
turn to someone/something
untrusting
untrustworthiness
untrustworthy

reliant | Business English

reliant
adjective
uk /rɪˈlaɪənt/us
 be reliant on/upon sb/sth
to need or depend on something or someone in order to be able to do something:
Census data revealed today showed just how reliant we have all become on technology.
We need to make the transition towards an energy economy which is not reliant upon fossil fuels.

Examples of reliant

reliant
Furthermore, although both grounds are reliant on fundamental egalitarian commitments, these commitments appear to embody two different, indeed conflicting, notions of equality.
But, as the population burgeoned in recent decades, traditional economies faltered and were supplanted by agricultural production reliant on few species.
Quite the reverse, the lower status groups are very much reliant on national social and labour market policies protecting their interests.
In fact, some groups are heavily reliant on patronage for their financial survival.
The book is heavily reliant on pitched percussion and keyboards, with a strong emphasis on the melodic focus of the music.
These forces were relatively small, utterly dependent on the relevant parties and political institutions, and reliant on few "professionals," mostly volunteers.
We are not yet solely reliant upon media.
Many of its participants never met anybody from it face to face and it was never reliant on local scenes.
They are said to be reliant upon collective action to secure higher pay and rights in the workplace.
Promotion of case management on the basis of before and after comparisons of admission rates is, therefore, reliant on potentially flawed evidence.
In addition, invalidation of such subjective perceptions may be seen as unjustifiably reliant upon epistemological externalism.
The project processes which are reliant on partnership working, multi faceted activities and community development approaches, make control groups measuring intervention effects impossible.
We are reliant on care managers' interpretations of events.
Other ideological practices less reliant on metapragmatic discourse play a crucial role in linking linguistic forms to ideas of ethno-national belonging.
Some instrumental learning tasks are reliant on the formation of stimulus-reinforcement associations; for example, passive avoidance learning.
See all examples of reliant
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.