Used in a Sentence

reliant

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for reliant.

Editorial note

If a retail shop is reliant on a customer worth a mere $4/day, then it has serious problems.

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Quick take

Having reliance on somebody or something.

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

Having reliance on somebody or something.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for reliant.

Example sentences

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If a retail shop is reliant on a customer worth a mere $4/day, then it has serious problems.

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Downtime of major internet services could also cause deaths elsewhere, as more industries become reliant on cloud services.

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All these extra compilation steps make things so much more complicated and third-party reliant than they need be.

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These countries are not in default but they are definitely broke and reliant on debt to an insane level.

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If banks aren't reliant for central banks or others for their money, then why are there not more banks?

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Instead most users are reliant on the device manufacturing seeing the financial incentive to provide updates.

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A terminal app (or a console app), while also accessed from one's shell, is not reliant solely on the shell's command line.

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As people have pointed out, this tag is reliant on the service operating.

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So I guess that's a new category 6, reliant on the aegis of something like OP's startup.

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Especially when trying to read a grid or chart reliant on seeing all the information at once and not 4 rows at a time.

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They are still overly reliant on search and advertising revenues I also don't think Apple is in particularly great shape.

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Unfortunately in the UK this is almost certainly no-go; we've had our fill of the Sinclair / Reliant / etc.

Quote examples

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Our "conservatism" when it is coherent is really a more-radical Liberalism in the sense of an emphasis on a self-reliant individual.

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My point is that "focus on the core competency" doesn't have to mean "make our company reliant on a dozen other SaaS businesses who may go offline or change their business model/functionality on a whim"

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> (Side note: why does it have to be that you never hear someone say, "I love my cable/phone/internet company, you should sign up with them."?) I've heard that about TekSavvy DSL in Canada, but they are reliant on Bell which controls the last-mile copper and started throttling even 3rd-party providers 1.5+ years ago.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use reliant in a sentence?

If a retail shop is reliant on a customer worth a mere $4/day, then it has serious problems.

What does reliant mean?

Having reliance on somebody or something.

What part of speech is reliant?

reliant is commonly used as adjective.