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dependency

[dih-pen-duhn-see] / dɪˈpɛn dən si /
NOUN
reliance
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The Taliban authorities announced in November that the decades-long dependency on medicine imports from Pakistan would soon end, a step taken after deadly border clashes with their neighbour.

From Barron's

“Our SemiCab platform breaks that dependency by embedding intelligence directly into the freight operating system.”

From MarketWatch

Unable to sustain Europe’s balance of power themselves, Europeans were “reduced to dependency on one or the other global superpower.”

From The Wall Street Journal

In a passionate address he declared that the continent had lost its sovereignty and was caught in a dependency trap.

From BBC

When do competitively priced imports become an intolerable dependency?

From The Wall Street Journal