Definition of "dependent on" []

• Determined by conditions or circumstances that follow (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "One gets the impression that, if they could, the folks who are dependent on wheelchairs, walkers, or canes would be on their feet by now instead of hooting cowboylike bravos and clapping from their seats, letting their voices and hands convey the standing ovation that their bodies cannot."
• "In the Middle Ages it was an autocephalous archdiocese, originally dependent on Cyzicus."
• "Since the abolition of the privilegium fori, the scope of the privilegium competentiœ has been dependent on the state laws."