dependant on

1. 1.

   being determined by conditions or circumstances that follow

   “arms sales contingent on the approval of congress”

   Synonymscontingentcontingent oncontingent upondependent ondependent upondependant upondepending on

   Similarconditional

Questions about dependant on

What does dependant on mean?

dependant on means "being determined by conditions or circumstances that follow".

What is another word for dependant on?

Close synonyms include contingent, contingent on, contingent upon, dependent on, dependent upon. 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 dependant on a common word?

dependant on is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.