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View synonyms for reliant

reliant

[ ri-lahy-uhnt ]

adjective

  1. having or showing dependence:

    reliant on money from home.

  2. confident; trustful.


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Other Words From

  • re·liant·ly adverb
  • over·re·liant adjective
  • unre·liant adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of reliant1

First recorded in 1855–60; rely + -ant

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Example Sentences

Another direct-to-consumer company — this time a cat food manufacturer called Smalls — will continue to work to become less reliant on Facebook and Instagram by diversifying its media plan this year.

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“Having full ownership over our data is giving us leverage with major advertisers who like the fact that we’re not reliant on another vendor when it comes to our web analytics and can offer complete transparency,” said Lue Lytzen.

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The Merck effort started later and significantly lagged other companies, and the nation’s vaccination plan wasn’t heavily reliant on a possible Merck shot.

Get Maine Lobster, a direct-to-consumer seafood company, diversified its media plan throughout 2020 to be less reliant on Facebook and Instagram.

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After turning to Smith or Marial throughout much of the nonconference schedule, Turgeon became increasingly reliant on smaller but versatile players Donta Scott, Jairus Hamilton and Darryl Morsell shuffling in and out of the two frontcourt positions.

Satirists are reliant ultimately on the very establishment they mock.

That means the F-35 will be almost entirely reliant on long-range air-to-air missiles.

As a result, American and British prisoners are almost solely reliant on dangerous military efforts to free them.

And she credits her mother for helping to establish who that woman was early on: independent, free, self-reliant.

Non-U.S. companies, much more reliant on exports, cannot afford to do that.

As guileless, though as self-reliant, gentlewomen as sequestered England could produce.

The trait is not rare in mankind in general, but it is exceptional in men of a character so self-reliant and decided as Nelson.

But you must be self-reliant, and put them on the list of experiments.

It's a good House—good boys—manly, self-reliant, purposeful.

Once on this I became over-reliant, and in consequence sank several times into narrow fissures.

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