dependant upon

Questions about dependant upon

What does dependant upon mean?

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

What is another word for dependant upon?

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

dependant upon 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.