Definitions for "dependent"
A person who is financially supported by another person.
Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.
Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining; subordinate; -- often with on or upon; as, dependent on God; dependent upon friends. Opposite of independent.
Keywords:  addicted, drug
addicted to drugs.
addicted to a drug
of a clause; unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; "a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or adjective or adverb within a sentence"
Inducing others to assume responsibility for major areas of one's life; subordinating one's own needs to those of others on whom one is dependent to avoid any possibility of independence; lack of self-confidence.
Keywords:  corollary, consequence
That which depends; corollary; consequence.
Keywords:  exemption, claim, five, qualify, preset
Any person who meets preset five tests of dependency and can therefore qualify to be claimed as a dependent for taxation.
An individual who the tax law allows to be claimed as a dependent on another individual’s income tax return.
A person who meets the five tests of dependency and thereby qualifies to be claimed as a dependent for tax purposes.
conditional; contingent or conditioned. Opposite of unconditional.
Acceptance of a capital budgeting project contingent on the acceptance of another project.
contingent on something else
Individuals included in a household who depend on a primary caregiver.
An individual who depends on another for sustenance.
Keywords:  bough, hanging, leaf, down
Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.
being under the power or sovereignty of another or others; "subject peoples"; "a dependent prince"
A software product that requires another product or update to be installed before or at the same time it is installed. Contrast with prerequisite (page ***).
Keywords:  waiting, see
See Waiting on Dependency.
Keywords:  decision, assignment, result
an assignment that is the result of some other decision
Dependent variable Deposit insurance
An individual who is covered on an insurance policy, who is not the insured.
dependent variable is one that is associated with the outputs of a function.
Keywords:  resource, order, operate, one
A resource that depends on one or more resources in order to operate. If resource A depends on resource B, then resource A is dependent.