لفظ "انحصار" کا لغت میں معنی کسی چیز یا کسی اور پر انحصار کرنے یا اس کے کنٹرول میں رہنے کی حالت ہے۔ یہ کسی ایسے علاقے یا ریاست کا بھی حوالہ دے سکتا ہے جو سیاسی یا معاشی طور پر کسی دوسرے ملک یا ادارے پر منحصر ہے۔
1. As my ability to control my mind grew, my dependency on booze lessened.
2. Perhaps the worst atrocities were the efforts to destroy lives by infesting goodwill offerings with disease and introducing drugs like alcohol to cause dependency.
3. Even our support given directly to the people has to be carefully administered to prevent a culture of dependency.
4. They lavish affection, create dependency, isolate their victim from friends and family.
5. Her hands were clasped before her in prayer, but instead of looking upward toward that power which alone could rescue them, her unconscious looks wandered to the countenance of Duncan with infantile dependency.
6. Expectation and dependency on their faces, in their voices.
7. She saw now that the Eden Plague would take away their power by taking away an enormous source of dependency.