Usually means: Individuals financially supported by another.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word dependents:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. dependents: Merriam-Webster
  2. dependents: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dependents: Vocabulary.com
  4. Dependents, dependents: Wordnik
  5. dependents: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dependents: Wiktionary
  7. dependents: Dictionary.com
  8. dependents: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Dependents: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dependents: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Dependents: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dependents: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dependents: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. dependents: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dependent)

adjective:  Relying upon; depending upon.
adjective:  (statistics) Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
adjective:  (of Irish/Manx/Scottish (Gaelic) verb forms) Used after a particle (with one or two exceptions), such as those which express questions, subordinate clauses, and negative sentences.
adjective:  (medicine) Of part of the body: positioned lower than the heart, like the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
adjective:  Hanging down.
noun:  A person who relies on another for support or sustenance, particularly financial support.
noun:  (grammar) An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
noun:  (grammar) The aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but preceded by a particle to form the negative or a tense form. Found in Greek and in the Gaelic languages.
noun:  (philosophy) dependent (origination), in Buddhism, the idea that the existence of everything is conditional and dependent on a cause, and that nothing happens fortuitously or by chance.
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