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dependency

(sometimes US), dependancy
1. Politics a territory subject to a state on which it does not border
2. Psychol overreliance by a person on another person or on a drug, etc.
Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

dependency

[di′pen·dən·sē]
(computer science)
The necessity for a computer to complete work on some job before execution of another can begin.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

dependency

A subsidiary building near or adjoining a principal structure.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Although many scholars have paid attention to the topic of smartphone dependency, a majority of them have studied it as a similar concept as smartphone addiction or problematic smartphone use (e.g., Park, Kim, Shon, & Shim, 2013; Salehan & Negahban, 2013).
"Part of the reduced dependency on oil revenues arises from plummeting oil prices," Jahangiri said, "We are up to bring down to zero dependency of the current budget on oil by the end of the present government and to reduce its dependency on the development budget as low as possible."
Despite a climate of social alarm caused by the fact that young people are prone to losing self-control in using mobile phones (Igarashi et al., 2008; Leung, 2007), relatively little research regarding smartphone dependency has been conducted.
This article describes the characteristics of a child that would qualify for a dependency exemption under the I.R.C., explains the parents' entitlement to claiming the exemption and the rules that must be followed for one parent to waive his or her rights, articulates the complexities that arise when a qualifying child's parents file their federal tax returns separately, discusses the Tax Court's treatment of state court order provisions relating to child dependency exemptions, and explores steps that can be taken to help maximize the possibility that the 1RS will honor a parent's entitlement or waiver of the right to claim a child as a dependent for federal tax purposes.
The western results showed positive relation between parental neglecting and rejecting behavior with dependency in children's personality whereas indigenous Pakistani results showed negative relation between dependency in children's personality and parental rejection.
Scholars from natural language processing and theoretical and applied linguistics begin with what may be the first formal definition of dependency structure, mathematically derived from simpler notions of fragments and connections.
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