dependency
Example Sentences
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“Especially if any of our trading partners decides to weaponize the dependency we have.”
Salehuddin Ahmed, who holds the finance portfolio in the interim government, said the economy had shifted from the "intensive care unit to the high dependency unit".
From Barron's
Last year, UPS said it would start to reduce its dependency on Amazon as part of a turnaround plan, which would see the company focus on more profitable customers like healthcare companies.
From BBC
“These dependencies around technology, around security, around finance and the dollar, that’s the glue that’s now keeping together the Western bloc,” said Neil Shearing, chief economist at Capital Economics in London.
"We want to trade and deal with the US on as many issues as possible," Jorgensen said, but he added that "we are not aiming at replacing one dependency with a new dependency".
From Barron's
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