Sentence examples for dependants are from inspiring English sources

On our latest information, it now appears that all our staff and their dependants are accounted for.

Cameron wanted to stop child benefits being paid to workers in Britain whose dependants are elsewhere in the EU.

Such faceless minors and dependants are not required to sign consent forms – and anyway, could not possibly be expected to understand to what they are consenting.

Single people with no dependants are unlikely to need it because no one is going to suffer financially if they die.

Worst hit by the draw down are expected to be the towns of  Paderborn, where some 10,000 British troops and their dependants are based and Herford which is home to 2,200 soldiers and their families.

According to government calculations, around 3,500 patients or their dependants are likely to be eligible for support.

"Asylum casework managers told us that there were approximately 10,000 asylum claims where the claimant and dependants were not in contact with the Home Office or had absconded.

"As is evident from the attempted intervention of the banks and law firms, the ability to bring in dependants is an important issue for persons deciding whether to move to Hong Kong," it said.

However, 90% of those who were single without dependants were in income poverty.

Those who were married without dependants were used as the reference group.

The status of having dependants was dichotomised into those with 17-year-old or younger children and those without.