Definition of "rely on" []

• To be confident in. (verb)
• To be dependent upon. (verb)

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• "And residents rely on Shomrim because police don't have the resources to check out minor issues like a noise in the backyard but Shomrim does, said Jacob Daskal, a coordinator and founder of the Borough Park Shomrim patrol."
• "For the foreseeable future, though, the ISS must rely on Russian Soyuz craft for crew exchanges, and Russian Progress vessels, European ATVs and Japanese HTVs for further logistics."
• "The Crusaders were within a blast from Marius Jonker's whistle of halting the Bulls 'long run of successes at Loftus Versfeld and must now win and rely on other results to continue their qualifying run which began in 2002."