Meaning & use
Depend
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To rely on someone or something for support, help, or a particular outcome.
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The village's economy depends heavily on tourism.
You can always depend on her to tell the truth.
A note on using this word
"Depend" comes from Latin "dependere," literally "to hang from," which still echoes in the modern sense of one thing being contingent on another.
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