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interdependent, a.|ˌɪntədɪˈpɛndənt|
[inter- 2 a.]
Dependent each upon the other; mutually dependent.
1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. (1882) 57 Which..stand..in interdependent connection with everything that exists. 1879H. Spencer Data Ethics i. §2. 5 Conduct is a whole..an aggregate of inter-dependent actions performed by an organism.
Hence interdeˈpendently, in an interdependent manner, in mutual dependence.
1884H. Spencer in Contemp. Rev. June 773 A conception of [society] as having a natural structure in which all its institutions, governmental, religious, industrial, commercial, etc., etc., are inter-dependently bound. 1890Scribner's Mag. Jan. 21 The buildings were interdependently combined. |