state-dependentadj.

1859 R. Bond in Two Prize Ess. of Suffolk Agric. Assoc. 30 Increased employment necessarily reduces pauperism..and makes men more self-dependent and less state-dependent.

1922 H. D. Chapin Heredity & Child Culture 171 The latter [sc. the state primary school] was entirely abolished in 1895, since which time all the state dependent children have been boarded out.

1952 Philos. Q. 2 251 Maitland's objection to the doctrine of corporations as State-created and State-dependent is that it outrages common sense.

1996 Irish Times 5 Feb. 6/7 There is intense and angry debate over the new trend of young, usually poor and State-dependent women having large families of several children by different fathers.

2012 B. B. Vargo in W. J. Rothwell Encycl. Human Resource Managem. I. §30 Many of the legal considerations involved with drug testing are state-dependent in the United States and are stricter than the federal regulations enacted.

1967 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 58 162 The impairment of performance observed in mice trained while under the influence of acetoxycycloheximide is not due to ‘state-dependent learning’.

1990 Behavioral Ecol. 1 62 Reserves were increased when ambient temperature was lowered or foraging success was made more unpredictable. The response to unpredictability was state-dependent.

1997 M. Fabi Wyrm vi. 160 State-dependent learning. I should have thought of it before... Whatever you learn is always most accessible when you're in the same emotional state you were in when you originally learned it.

2003 Denver Westword (Nexis) 11 Sept. I considered having a few beers to see if state-dependent memory would help my recollection of the night.