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reliance

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reliance in WordNet English dictionary

noun
  1. certainty based on past experience
    "he wrote the paper with considerable reliance on the work of other scientists"; "he put more trust in his own two legs than in the gun"
    reliance  trust 
  2. the state of relying on something
    reliance 
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