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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Mutual dependence.
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- noun A
mutual dependence ,connection orcorrelation
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- noun a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups)
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Examples
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Otherwise, what we call interdependency is really counterdependency, in which people do the opposite to assert their independence, or co-dependency, in which they literally need the other person's weakness to fulfill their need and to justify their own weakness.
Living the 7 Habits STEPHEN R. COVEY 2001
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Logically, the possibility of this kind of interdependency appears to depend on the existence of directed flows of activities between the places that do not extend to other places.
Archive 2009-02-01 Daniel Little 2009
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Logically, the possibility of this kind of interdependency appears to depend on the existence of directed flows of activities between the places that do not extend to other places.
Regional interconnectedness Daniel Little 2009
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As a result, we seek to force trade, win economic contests by colonizing others, ever-increase our share of distant economies, and manufacture a global "interdependency" while labor's clout, democracy, ecology and balance are destroyed.
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Today, no local autonomy, democratic decision, or national or cultural freedom is to interfere with capital's effectively-forced "interdependency" dictated by GATT/WTO and growthism.
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Later, my formal education in Buddhist thought exposed me to concepts such as interdependency and the human potential for infinite compassion.
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There was an "interdependency" between the corporate sector's response to globalisation and its response to HIV/Aids, she said.
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IEF Secretary General Noe van Hulst and Mexican President Felipe Calderon also joined Kessel in highlighting the growing "interdependency" between the two sides.
Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories 2010
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IEF Secretary General Noe van Hulst and Mexican President Felipe Calderon also joined Kessel in highlighting the growing "interdependency" between the two sides.
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As we broke the bonds of relationship and interdependency with one another and disrupted our ecological matrix, our link to the divine mysteries became all but lost.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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