Colony
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Region or governmental unit created by another country and generally ruled by another country. A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association.
Example sentence: The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.
Dependency
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A state of dependence; a refusal to exercise initiative.Something dependent on, or subordinate to, something else:A colony, or a territory subject to rule by an external power.A dependence on a habit-forming substance such as a drug or alcohol; addiction.Reliance on the functionality provided by some other, external component.
Example sentence: As an actress, you never know when you're going to work again - and there's so much dependency on working.