reliance
The act of relying; trustThe act of relying (on or in someone or something); trust.
» Now that's what I call self-reliance.
Das nenne ich mal Selbstständigkeit! — Yorwba
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4 senses(countable, uncountable)The act of relying (on or in someone or something); trust.
Your reliance on his expertise may be misplaced.
Verlass, Vertrauen
дове́риеdovérije
the state of relying on something
(countable, uncountable)The condition of being reliant or dependent.
The industry is working to phase out its reliance on fossil fuels.
Abhängigkeit
(countable, dated, uncountable)Anything on which to rely; ground of trust.
The boat was a poor reliance.
(countable, uncountable)A person or thing which relies on another.
Vertrauende, Abhängige
Examples
13 sentencesNow that's what I call self-reliance.
deDas nenne ich mal Selbstständigkeit! — Yorwba
We need to reduce our reliance on foreign oil.
deWir müssen unsere Abhängigkeit von ausländischem Öl reduzieren. — Yorwba
Algeria needs to reduce its reliance on oil.
Algeria needs to move away from its reliance on hydrocarbons.
Algeria needs to move away from its reliance on oil and gas.
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 3
Forms
plural: reliancesSynonyms
1 synonyms- certainty based on past experience:trust
Word family
9 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.