0 needing a particular thing or person in order to continue, to work correctly, or to succeed:
The project is heavily reliant on volunteers.
He's completely reliant on his wheelchair to get about.
1 to need or depend on something or someone in order to be able to do something:
We need to make the transition towards an energy economy which is not reliant upon fossil fuels.
Census data revealed today showed just how reliant we have all become on technology.
Some instrumental learning tasks are reliant on the formation of stimulus-reinforcement associations; for example, passive avoidance learning.
Other ideological practices less reliant on metapragmatic discourse play a crucial role in linking linguistic forms to ideas of ethno-national belonging.
We are reliant on care managers' interpretations of events.
The project processes which are reliant on partnership working, multi faceted activities and community development approaches, make control groups measuring intervention effects impossible.
In addition, invalidation of such subjective perceptions may be seen as unjustifiably reliant upon epistemological externalism.
Promotion of case management on the basis of before and after comparisons of admission rates is, therefore, reliant on potentially flawed evidence.
They are said to be reliant upon collective action to secure higher pay and rights in the workplace.
Many of its participants never met anybody from it face to face and it was never reliant on local scenes.
