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de·pen·dant  (d-pndnt)
n.
Variant of dependent.

dependant
Noun
a person who depends on another for financial support
USAGE: Avoid confusion with dependent.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.dependant - a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)
recipient, receiver - a person who receives something
charge - a person committed to your care; "the teacher led her charges across the street"
minion - a servile or fawning dependant
Adj.1.dependant - contingent on something else
conditional - imposing or depending on or containing a condition; "conditional acceptance of the terms"; "lent conditional support"; "the conditional sale will not be complete until the full purchase price is paid"
2.dependant - addicted to a drug
addicted - compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming; "she is addicted to chocolate"; "addicted to cocaine"

dependant
noun relative, rellie Austral. (slang) child, minor, subordinate, cohort chiefly U.S. protégé, henchman, retainer, hanger-on, minion, vassal
USAGE Dependant is the generally accepted correct spelling in British usage for the noun and always refers to people: if you are single and have no dependants. The adjective should be spelt dependent: tax allowance for dependent (not dependant) children. American usage spells both adjective and noun with an e in the last syllable.
Translations
Spanish dependant [dɪˈpɛndənt] ndependiente m/f
French dependant [dɪˈpɛndənt] depend npersonne f à charge
German dependant [dɪˈpɛndənt] depend nabhängige(r) (Familien)angehörige(r) f(m)
Italian dependant [dɪˈpɛndənt] npersona a carico

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I found some of it hard to endure, though I am a mild-tempered man; but, certainly, when I told the captain to "shut up" I had forgotten that I was merely a bit of human flotsam, cut off from my resources and with my fare unpaid; a mere casual dependant on the bounty, or speculative enterprise, of the ship.
Miss Squeers knew as well in her heart of hearts that what the miserable serving-girl had said was sheer, coarse, lying flattery, as did the girl herself; yet the mere opportunity of venting a little ill-nature against the offending Miss Price, and affecting to compassionate her weaknesses and foibles, though only in the presence of a solitary dependant, was almost as great a relief to her spleen as if the whole had been gospel truth.
As he furnished George with money for his mother, he gave the boy to understand by hints, delivered in his brutal, coarse way, that George's maternal grandfather was but a wretched old bankrupt and dependant, and that John Sedley might thank the man to whom he already owed ever so much money for the aid which his generosity now chose to administer.
 
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