Synonyms for rely on
re·ly on

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1. rely onverb

   Synonyms:
   rely upon, depend on, count on

2. rely onverb

   To be confident in.

   I know I can rely on you.

   Synonyms:
   count on, depend on, rely upon

3. rely onverb

   To be dependent upon.

   The city relies on the subway system.

   Synonyms:
   depend on, count on, rely upon

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1. rely onverb

   Synonyms:
   believe, confide in, depend on, depend upon, rely upon, trust

   Antonyms:
   distrust, doubt, doubt, mistrust, surmise, suspect

Princeton's WordNet

1. depend on, rely onverb

   be dependent on, as for support or maintenance

   "elderly parents often depend on their adult children"

2. depend on, depend upon, rely on, rely uponverb

   put trust in with confidence

   "she is someone you can really rely on when times get rough"; "you can rely on his discretion"

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1. rely on

   Synonyms:
   trust in, depend on, confide in, count on, rely upon

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1. Stan Shea:

   There are sharks that must continue swimming to be able to breathe, as they rely on the forward motion to keep water passing through their gill slits and get oxygen.

2. Dan Gigone:

   We still have a bunch of trips scheduled for the next few weeks, so we’re either going to have to cancel or take clients up to Yellowstone National Park and do what we can, we rely on this part of the year to provide the money to keep us going through the winter.

3. Donna Kalinkiewicz:

   I think everybody should teach a child how to read an analog dial, you’re always going to have those people who rely on digital [because] that’s all they know [and] that’s all they care about. All they understand is 12:48 [but] they don’t understand that that’s 12 minutes to one.

4. Isabel Sheinman:

   We consider ourselves a tech company, we don’t want to be a traditional nonprofit. We don’t want to have to rely on individual support.

5. Gillian Branstetter:

   [These bills] rely on this sort of paranoid idea that teachers are secretly encouraging your kids to identify as trans, and then not telling you about it, it’s fundamentally important that all young people feel they can build trust with the people that they spend most of their day with, which are their teachers.