The phrase "a state of dependency" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a condition where someone or something relies on another for support or sustenance.
Example: "The economic crisis has led to a state of dependency on government assistance for many families."
Alternatives: "a condition of reliance" or "a situation of dependence."
To be unable to afford one is to remain in a state of dependency.
All human beings begin in a state of dependency and the human family is the indispensable foundation for this, with unconditional family love mirroring the love of God.
The world economy will benefit enormously from the contributions of those who are able to move from a state of dependency to full participation.
The impulse to confess is human, and in a state of dependency and abjection, it is not implausible that we might say what we know our listeners want to hear.
Perpetually aware of the public eye upon him, the premier is reduced by illness to a state of dependency which forces him to close his eyes to the political storm outside and contemplate instead his "secret, inner life".
In the end, I reached such a low with the drug that I knew I had to stop altogether, that I couldn't go on living in a state of dependency.' This was a period of intense self-questioning for Sylvian.
Haiti's economy has long existed in a state of colonial dependency upon one or another foreign power; today it is the United States.
In order to keep Greece in a state of complete dependency by controlling the straits and the supply of grain from the southern Russian region, Macedonia its vigour restored needed only to gain mastery over the Aegean Sea.
And the excellent performances of David Harbour as the square-jawed, irony-free biologist, and Mireille Enos as his upchucking wife, remind us that they too are more than pawns in the game: they symbolise, respectively, a faintly dehumanised scientific progress and a state of marital dependency.
It was Mr Field who, in the 1970s, coined the expression "poverty trap" to describe a state of welfare dependency in which the economic advantages of working are too marginal to get out of bed for.These views are informed by Mr Field's Christian faith and, he would say, rather British sense of fairness.
International charities, he added, had undermined the authority of the state by maintaining the country in a state of permanent dependency and using it as a humanitarian testing ground.
