semidependent

Free persons who were not members of a community—aliens, illegitimate children, freed slaves—were semidependent and had restricted rights.

F. The Neo-Persian Empire of the Sassanians, 223-651 C.E 2001

This helplessness of a semidependent and uneducated girl may be further illustrated by the chronicle of Alice Anderson, a girl of seventeen, who had been working in the department stores for three years and a half.

Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls Edith Wyatt 1915

With the abandonment of hunting and war and the tardy adoption of a slothful, semidependent agriculture, the frame has lost something of its stalwart vigor; with the adaptation of the white man’s costume and the incomplete assimilation of his hygiene, various weaknesses and disorders have been developed; and through imitation the erstwhile luxuriant hair is cropped, and the beard, made scanty through generations of extirpation, is commonly cultivated.

The Siouan Indians 1882