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NOUN (2)

1. certainty based on past experience;
- Example: "he wrote the paper with considerable reliance on the work of other scientists"
- Example: "he put more trust in his own two legs than in the gun"
[syn: reliance, trust]

2. the state of relying on something; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Reliance \Re*li"ance\ (-ans), n. [From Rely.]
   1. The act of relying, or the condition or quality of being
      reliant; dependence; confidence; trust; repose of mind
      upon what is deemed sufficient support or authority.
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            In reliance on promises which proved to be of very
            little value.                         --Macaulay.
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   2. Anything on which to rely; dependence; ground of trust;
      as, the boat was a poor reliance. --Richardson.
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U.S. Gazetteer (1990):

Reliance, SD (town, FIPS 54020)
  Location: 43.88036 N, 99.60227 W
  Population (1990): 169 (84 housing units)
  Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 57569
Reliance, TN
  Zip code(s): 37369
Reliance, VA
  Zip code(s): 22649


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

113 Moby Thesaurus words for "reliance":
   Maecenas, abettor, acceptation, acception, acquiescence, admirer,
   advocate, aficionado, aid, angel, anticipation, apologist,
   aspiration, assumption, assurance, assured faith, assuredness,
   backer, backing, belief, buff, carriage, carrying, certainty,
   champion, cheerful expectation, confidence, contemplation,
   conviction, credence, credit, credulity, defender, dependence,
   desire, doomed hope, encourager, endorser, expectancy, expectation,
   exponent, fair prospect, faith, fan, favorer, fervent hope,
   friend at court, good cheer, good hope, great expectations,
   high hopes, hope, hopeful prognosis, hopefulness, hopes, hoping,
   hoping against hope, imminence, lover, mainstay, maintainer,
   maintenance, moral support, paranymph, partisan, patron,
   prayerful hope, presumption, probability, promise, promoter,
   prospect, prospects, protagonist, psychological support, reception,
   reliance on, sanguine expectation, second, seconder, sectary,
   security, security blanket, sider, sponsor, stalwart, standby,
   stock, store, subsidy, subvention, support, supporter,
   supportive relationship, supportive therapy, sureness, surety,
   suspension of disbelief, sustainer, sustaining, sustainment,
   sustenance, sustentation, sympathizer, thought, trust,
   unastonishment, upholder, upholding, upkeep, votary,
   well-grounded hope, well-wisher