Dictionary Definition
contingent adj
1 possible but not certain to occur; "they had to
plan for contingent expenses"
2 determined by conditions or circumstances not
yet established; "arms sales contingent on the approval of
congress" [syn: contingent
on(p), dependent
on(p), dependant
on(p), depending
on(p)]
3 uncertain because of uncontrollable
circumstances; "the results of confession were not contingent, they
were certain"- George Eliot
Noun
1 a gathering of persons representative of some
larger group; "each nation sent a contingent of athletes to the
Olympics"
2 a temporary military unit; "the peace-keeping
force includes one British contingent" [syn: detail]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future; a contingency.
- That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share; proportion;
- (military) a quota of troops.
Translations
that which falls to one in a division or
apportionment among a number
- German: Anteil , Kontingent
Adjective
- Possible or liable, but not certain to occur; incidental; casual.
- (with upon) Dependent on something that is
undetermined or
unknown.
- The success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he can not control.
- Dependent on something that may or may not occur.
- a contingent estate
- Not logically necessarily true or false.
Translations
possible, liable, incidental, casual
- Finnish: mahdollinen
- German: möglich
- Swedish: eventuell, oviss
dependent on something unknown
- Finnish: riippuvainen
- German: abhängig (von)
dependent on something that may or may not occur
- Finnish: ehdollinen
Extensive Definition
Contingency may refer to:
- Contingency (philosophy), the status of facts that are not logically necessarily true or false.
- Contingency plan
- Spell Contingency , a type of passive spell or neutral spell in the Dungeons and Dragons themed role-playing games.
- Contingent Fee, a type of attorney's fee.
- Cost Contingency
contingent in German: Kontingenz
(Philosophie)
contingent in Spanish: Contingencia
contingent in French: Contingent
contingent in Ido: Kontingenteso
contingent in Japanese: 偶然
contingent in Luxembourgish: Kontingenz
contingent in Dutch: Contingentie
contingent in Portuguese:
Contingência
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accessory, accident, accidental, addendum, addition, additional, adjunct, adscititious, adventitious, adventure, age group, aleatory, allotment, allowance, appendage, appurtenance, appurtenant, ascititious, at issue,
auxiliary, band, based on, battalion, bevy, big end, bigger half,
bit, bite, body, boxed in, brigade, brushing, budget, bunch, cabal, cast, casual, casualty, causeless, chance, chance hit, chancy, chunk, circumscribed by, circumstantial, clique, cogitable, cohort, collateral, coming, coming to be, commission, company, complement, component, conceivable, conceivably
possible, conditional, conditioned, contacting, contingency, contingent on,
corps, coterie, covey, crew, cross section, crowd, cut, deal, dependent, dependent on,
depending, depending
on, depending on circumstances, destinal, destiny, detachment, detail, dicey, dividend, division, dole, end, equal share, event, eventual, eventuality, eventuation, extra, faction, fatal, fate, fatidic, final, fleet, fluke, fluky, fortuitous, fortuity, fraction, freak accident,
gang, glancing, grazing, group, grouping, groupment, half, halver, hap, happening, happenstance, hazard, hedged about by, helping, hinging on, humanly
possible, iffy, imaginable, impingent, impinging, in contact, in
question, in suspense, in the balance, in-group, incidence, incident to,
incidental,
incidental to, indeterminate, indirect, inessential, installment, interest, item, junta, last, likely, long odds, long shot,
lot, lucky shot, materialization,
measure, meed, meeting, mere chance, mess, mob, modicum, moiety, movement, nonessential, not-self,
nudging, occasional, odd, open, osculatory, other, out-group, outfit, pack, parcel, part, particular, party, peer group, pendent, pending, percentage, phalanx, piece, platoon, plausible, portion, posse, possible, potential, predicated on,
probable, proportion, provisional, quadrant, quantum, quarter, quota, rake-off, random sample,
ration, realization, regiment, relative, reliant, remainder, revolving on,
risky, rubbing, salon, sample, sampling, secondary, section, sector, segment, set, share, slice, small share, squad, stable, stake, steady, stock, string, subdivision, subgroup, subject to, subsidiary, subspecies, superadded, superaddition, superfluous, supervenient, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, suspenseful, tangent, tangential, team, thinkable, touching, tribe, troop, troupe, turning on, ultimate, unanticipated, uncaused, uncounted, undecided, undetermined, unessential, unestablished, unexpected, unfixed, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unlooked-for,
unpredictable,
unsettled, untold, up for grabs, wing