reliant
[ ri-lahy-uhnt ]
/ rɪˈlaɪ ənt /
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adjective
having or showing dependence: reliant on money from home.
confident; trustful.
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OTHER WORDS FROM reliant
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How to use reliant in a sentence
So the handling of Flight 447 again raises the question of whether pilots have become over-reliant on autopilots.
Once on this I became over-reliant, and in consequence sank several times into narrow fissures.
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