Definition of reliant in English:
reliant
adjective rɪˈlʌɪəntrəˈlaɪənt
Dependent on someone or something.
the company is heavily reliant on the baby market
Example sentencesExamples
- We are reliant upon debt for our money.
- Were clouds to close in, the aircraft would be reliant upon three instruments to aid the navigator.
- He talks about how man cannot rely on his own skills to survive in the modern world, how he's reliant on many others for his sense of self.
- Farmers reliant on a limited range of organic crops are likely to suffer significantly.
- Certain sections of society have become far too reliant on the state.
- Debt relief would barely make up for the fall in commodity prices such as coffee and cotton on which many developing nations' economies are reliant.
- We are a small open island economy, heavily reliant on our external trading partners for our economic prosperity.
- The book tries to explores the intense emotional bond that forms between people when they become reliant on each other.
- Science fiction movies have become all too reliant on CGI these days.
- Sound, even more than image, is reliant on the quality of the source recording.
Rhymes
affiant, Bryant, client, compliant, defiant, giant, pliant
Definition of reliant in US English:
reliant
adjectiverəˈlīəntrəˈlaɪənt
Dependent on someone or something.
the company is heavily reliant on the baby market
Example sentencesExamples
- We are a small open island economy, heavily reliant on our external trading partners for our economic prosperity.
- Certain sections of society have become far too reliant on the state.
- The book tries to explores the intense emotional bond that forms between people when they become reliant on each other.
- We are reliant upon debt for our money.
- Farmers reliant on a limited range of organic crops are likely to suffer significantly.
- He talks about how man cannot rely on his own skills to survive in the modern world, how he's reliant on many others for his sense of self.
- Were clouds to close in, the aircraft would be reliant upon three instruments to aid the navigator.
- Debt relief would barely make up for the fall in commodity prices such as coffee and cotton on which many developing nations' economies are reliant.
- Science fiction movies have become all too reliant on CGI these days.
- Sound, even more than image, is reliant on the quality of the source recording.