Captive vs Dependent - What's the difference?
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One who has been captured or is otherwise confined.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 One held prisoner.
(figurative) One charmed or subdued by beauty, excellence, or affection; one who is captivated.
Held prisoner; not free; confined.
* Milton
Subdued by love; charmed; captivated.
* Shakespeare
Of or relating to bondage or confinement; serving to confine.
Relying upon; depending upon.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Used in questions, negative sentences and after certain particles and prepositions.
(medicine) Affecting the lower part of the body, such as the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
Hanging down.
(US) One who relies on another for support
(grammar) An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
(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.
Captive is a related term of dependent.
As a verb captive
is .As a noun dependent is
.captive
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him. The captive made no resistance […].}}
Adjective
(-)- A poor, miserable, captive thrall.
- Even in so short a space, my wonan's heart / Grossly grew captive to his honey words.
- captive''' chains; '''captive hours
dependent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}
Noun
(en noun)- With two children and an ailing mother, she had three dependents in all ... (In British English, this meaning is spelt dependant.)