Noun: reliance ri'lI-un(t)s
- The state of relying on something
"The team's reliance on their star player became apparent when he was injured"
- Certainty based on past experience
"he wrote the paper with considerable reliance on the work of other scientists";
- trust
Derived forms: reliances
Type of: certainty, dependance [non-standard], dependence, dependency
Encyclopedia: Reliance, Tennessee