depend upon

Questions about depend upon

What does depend upon mean?

depend upon means "be contingent on". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for depend upon?

Close synonyms include depend on, devolve on, ride, turn on, hinge on. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is depend upon a common word?

depend upon is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.