Dependance

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dependant \De*pend"ant\, Dependance \De*pend"ance\, n.,
  Dependancy \De*pend"an*cy\, n.
     See {Dependent}, {Dependence}, {Dependency}.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: The forms dependant, dependance, dependancy are from


           the French; the forms dependent, etc., are from the
           Latin. Some authorities give preference to the form
           dependant when the word is a noun, thus distinguishing
           it from the adjective, usually written dependent.
           [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dependance
       n : lack of independence or self-sufficiency [syn: {dependence},
            {dependency}]