noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
chemical
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Anyway, chemical dependency is easier to study than other sorts.
economic
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The major cost of age discrimination is economic dependency , the most extreme form of which is poverty.
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In fact, with their economic and technological dependencies intact, the work was increasingly vulnerable to the crisis.
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When accompanied by minimum subsistence pensions, as in Britain, retirement means economic dependency .
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However, studies have documented how increasing economic dependency is the cost of trying to keep families in health and in credit.
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It can not be concluded from this, however, that the economic dependency of the elderly population has increased.
high
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Freud believed that the depressed person had developed from childhood with high dependency needs.
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In the private sector a greater incentive might exist to show a need for higher fees to match high levels of dependency .
structured
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In a sense, much modern human life is about structured dependency .
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This historical work itself represents a strong challenge to some of the premises which underpin the idea of structured dependency .
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culture
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Compliance and complacency are the manifest behaviours associated with an infantile dependency culture .
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It is this that leads to the dependency culture predominant among deaf people in integrated education.
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In a word, the dependency culture should be replaced by an enterprise one.
ratio
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Consequently dependency ratios for future decades are again only best estimates and not real facts.
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The bond-dependency ratio peaked this fiscal year, he said.
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I shall discuss the implications of the dependency ratio for the construction of family obligations in more detail in chapter 3.
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The dependency ratio is expected to top 28 percent next year for the second year in a row, economists said.
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There has been an increase in the dependency ratio because of several factors.
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Second, the typical dependency ratio assumes that all those aged 16 - 64 are gainfully employed.
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The nature of employment is also being affected by the increase in the dependency ratio .
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Calculating dependency ratios retrospectively or for current circumstances is not problematic.
theory
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This is really not very different from what dependency theories argue.
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Articulation of modes of production and dependency theories would view the continued use of these labor forms as beneficial to capitalism.
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The discussion is closely linked to the different approaches of modernisation and dependency theories .
welfare
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They prevent most of the underclass from being able to free themselves from welfare dependency .
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It fosters third-and fourth-generation welfare dependency .
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It should come as no surprise that welfare dependency , alcohol dependency, and drug dependency are among our most severe problems.
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In many cities, they sank into a vicious cycle of drugs, crime, teenage pregnancy, and welfare dependency .
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But his complaints that government programs to aid children only expand welfare dependency earned him a certain public enmity in 1994.
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create
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We also need to examine how communication technology and economic systems create political and cultural dependency . 5.
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We post these warnings because unnatural feeding and artificial care create dependency .
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These specialized functions create dependency among those less able to cope.
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Thus, factors largely outside the control of the old person can create a dependency upon institutional care.
increase
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The problems arise because old age is a period of increasing dependency - materially, physically, socially and emotionally.
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However, studies have documented how increasing economic dependency is the cost of trying to keep families in health and in credit.
reduce
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However, child benefit has fallen in real value, so there was no justification for reducing the dependency additions.
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The expectation from government industrial ReD is one of reducing dependency on imports without wanting to achieve self-sufficiency.
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Even less clearly struck has been the Government's attempt to reduce dependency on means-tested welfare.
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The Finance Ministry originally came up with a plan in 1990 to reduce bond dependency to 5 percent.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Finally, what looks like a determination to be patriotically self-reliant is simultaneously the opposite: the formalisation of complete dependency .
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He must already have begun to be aware that his dependency on alcohol was weakening his creative drive.
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It would make possible the provision of vastly improved public services, while reducing dependency upon them.
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Oral dependency has to be replaced by what the child can do for himself, on his own initiative.
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Psychology rarely explores these theoretical difficulties and dependencies.
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She also overcame drug dependencies stemming from painkillers taken for her illnesses.
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She suggested that dependency on cigarettes should be seen as another form of drug addiction.
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The system incorporates many assumptions about family relationships and dependency .