dependency theory
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A set of ideas to explain the inequalities between developed countries and developing countries, originally conceived in the context of Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s, stressing the interdependence of those countries in a capitalist global economy.
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noun
A subfield of database theory which studies implication and optimization problems related to logical constraints.
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Example Sentences
- "Dependency theory is a body of ideas about the role of developing countries within the global economic system, about the nature of development, and about patterns of unequal power. It dominated much Latin American social science (including the analysis of the region's international role) in the 1960s and 1970s."
Usage
Inflected Forms
dependency theories (plural)
Phrases
dependency theorist
modernization theory
Frequently Paired Words
modernization theory