Noun

(constituencies)

(British) A district represented by one or more elected officials.

John was elected to parliament from the Bedford constituency .

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, year=2011 , date=December 14 , author=Angelique Chrisafis , title=Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism , work=Guardian citation , page= , passage=The row started over who will run for parliament in a wealthy rightwing constituency on the left bank in Paris, a safe seat for Sarkozy's ruling UMP. Dati is already a local mayor in the neighbourhood, a job felt to have been handed to her on a plate when she was a Sarkozy favourite. She has since fallen from grace, and when she left government she took a European parliament seat, considered a consolation prize.}}

The voters within such a district.

An interest group or fan base.

Noun

(dependencies)

A state of dependence; a refusal to exercise initiative.

Frank's sullen dependency was driving his father nuts.

Something dependent on, or subordinate to, something else:

In the United States' governmental structure, the military is conceived as a dependency under the executive branch.

A colony, or a territory subject to rule by an external power.

A dependence on a habit-forming substance such as a drug or alcohol; addiction.

(computing) Reliance on the functionality provided by some other, external component.

This library has a lot of dependencies . We have to compile all of those other libraries first.