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Dependent vs Drudge - What's the difference?

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Dependent is a related term of drudge.


As nouns the difference between dependent and drudge

is that dependent is while drudge is a person who works in a low servile job.

As a verb drudge is

to labour in (or as in) a low servile job.

dependent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Relying upon; depending upon.
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  • 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.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US) One who relies on another for support
    • With two children and an ailing mother, she had three dependents in all ... (In British English, this meaning is spelt dependant.)
  • (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.

    • Synonyms

    * dependant

    Related terms

    * dependee * depender

    Related terms

    * depend * dependent clause * dependent variable * depending * independent * co-dependent ----

    drudge

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who works in a low servile job.
  • (pejorative) Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.

    • Derived terms

    * drudgery * drudgy

    Verb

    (drudg)
  • to labour in (or as in) a low servile job
  • * Otway
    • Rise in our toils and drudge away the day.
  • * Macaulay
    • He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged .