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/kəntˈɪndʒənt/ Listen

noun

Contingent n.

1.

An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future; a contingency. "His understanding could almost pierce into future contingents."

2.

That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share; proportion; esp., a quota of troops. "From the Alps to the border of Flanders, contingents were required... 200,000 men were in arms."

adjective

Contingent adj.

1.

Possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual. "Weighing so much actual crime against so much contingent advantage."

2.

Dependent on that which is undetermined or unknown; as, the success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he can not control. "Uncertain and contingent causes."

3.

(Law) Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. "If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one."

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"Contingent" Quotes from Famous Books

... except for the strong libertarian contingent which rejects conventional left-right politics entirely. The only safe generalization is that hackers tend to be rather anti-authoritarian; thus, both conventional conservatism and 'hard' leftism are rare. Hackers are far more likely than most non-hackers to either (a) be aggressively ...

— The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0

... contingencies, which I suppose the divell himselfe can neither forknow nor fortell; these being things which the Almightie hath keepd hidden in the bosome of his divine prescience. And whither the great God hath preordained or predestinated these things, which to us are contingent, to fall out by ane uncontrollable and unavoidable necessitie, is a question not yet decided." [SIR JAMES TURNER'S ...

— A Legend of Montrose • Sir Walter Scott

... sort o' self-herded in the New York Store. Which his story is a proud one, an' I'm a jedge because comin as I do from Tennessee myse'f, nacherally I saveys all about Kaintucky. Thar's three grades of folks in Kaintucky, the same bein' contingent entire on whereabouts them folks is camped. Thar's the Bloo Grass deestrict, the Pennyr'yal deestrict, an' the Purchase. The Bloo Grass folks is the 'ristocrats, while them low-flung trash from the Purchase is a heap plebeian. The Pennyr'yal outfit is ...

— Wolfville Days • Alfred Henry Lewis

... numerous in Florence at that time, and they were reinforced by a continually increasing American contingent, though our cousins had not yet begun to come in numbers rivalling our own, as has been the case recently. By the bye, it occurs to me, that I never saw an American pillaging the supper table; though, I may add, that American ladies would accept any amount of ...

— What I Remember, Volume 2 • Thomas Adolphus Trollope

... to regard as good authority that Cuban bonds have been prepared to a large amount, whose payment is made dependent upon the recognition by the United States of either Cuban belligerency or independence. The object of making their value thus contingent upon the action of this Government is a ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Ulysses S. Grant • James D. Richardson

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