contingent as a noun: - 1
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as an adjective: - 1
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contingent
noun
1 contingent
A gathering of persons representative of some larger group.
Roget 809:
expenditure,
money going out;
out goings,
out lay;
expenses,
disbursement;
prime cost
etc.
(price)
812;
circulation;
run upon a bank.
payment
etc.
807
[Money paid];
pay
etc.
(remuneration)
973;
bribe
etc.
973;
fee,
footing,
garnish;
subsidy;
tribute;
contingent,
quota;
donation
etc.
784.
pay in advance,
earnest,
handsel,
deposit,
installment.
investment;
purchase
etc.
795.
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Roget 786:
apportionment,
allotment,
consignment,
assignment,
appointment;
appropriation;
dispensation,
distribution;
division,
deal;
repartition,
partition;
administration.
dividend,
portion,
contingent,
share,
allotment,
fair share,
allocation,
lot,
measure,
dose;
dole,
meed,
pittance;
quantum,
ration;
ratio,
proportion,
quota,
modicum,
mess,
allowance;
suerte†.
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Dutch: troepencontingent
2 contingent
A temporary military unit:
— The peacekeeping force includes one British contingent.
synonym: detail.
Dutch: detail, kleinigheid, persoonsgegevens
Polish: autorament
adjective
1 contingent
Possible but not certain to occur.
Roget 8:
circumstantial;
given,
conditional,
provisional;
critical;
modal;
contingent,
incidental;
adventitious
etc.
(extrinsic)
6;
limitative†.
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Roget 469:
qualifying
etc.
v.;
qualified,
conditioned,
restricted,
hedged;
conditional;
exceptional
etc.
(unconformable)
83.
hypothetical
etc.
(supposed)
514;
contingent
etc.
(uncertain)
475.
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Roget 156:
casual,
fortuitous,
accidental,
adventitious,
causeless,
incidental,
contingent,
uncaused,
undetermined,
indeterminate;
random,
statistical;
possible
etc.
470;
unintentional
etc.
621.
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Roget 470:
possible;
in the cards,
on the dice;
in posse,
within the bounds of possibility,
conceivable,
credible;
compatible
etc.
23;
likely.
practicable,
feasible,
performable,
achievable;
within reach,
within measurable distance;
accessible,
superable†,
surmountable;
attainable,
obtainable;
contingent
etc.
(doubtful)
475,
(effect)
154.
barely possible,
marginally possible,
just possible;
possible but improbably,
(improbable)
473;
theoretically possible.
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Roget 6:
derived from without;
objective;
extrinsic,
extrinsical†;
extraneous
etc.
(foreign)
57;
modal,
adventitious;
ascititious†,
adscititious†;
incidental,
accidental,
nonessential;
contingent,
fortuitous.
implanted,
ingrafted†;
inculcated,
infused.
outward,
apparent
etc.
(external)
220.
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Polish: ewentualny
2 contingent
Being determined by conditions or circumstances that follow:
— Arms sales contingent on the approval of congress.
synonyms: contingent on, contingent upon, dependant on, dependant upon, dependent on, dependent upon, depending on.
Roget 475:
uncertain;
casual;
random
etc.
(aimless)
621;
changeable
etc.
149.
doubtful,
dubious;
indecisive;
unsettled,
undecided,
undetermined;
in suspense,
open to discussion;
controvertible;
in question
etc.
(inquiry)
461.
vague;
indeterminate,
indefinite;
ambiguous,
equivocal;
undefined,
undefinable;
confused
etc.
(indistinct)
447;
mystic,
oracular;
dazed.
perplexing
etc.
v.;
enigmatic,
paradoxical,
apocryphal,
problematical,
hypothetical;
experimental
etc.
463.
unpredictable,
unforeseeable
(unknowable)
519.
fallible,
questionable,
precarious,
slippery,
ticklish,
debatable,
disputable;
unreliable,
untrustworthy.
contingent,
contingent on,
dependent on;
subject to;
dependent on circumstances;
occasional;
provisional.
unauthentic,
unauthenticated,
unauthoritative;
unascertained,
unconfirmed;
undemonstrated;
untold,
uncounted.
in a state of uncertainty,
in a cloud,
in a maze;
bushed,
off the track;
ignorant,
etc.
491;
afraid to say;
out of one's reckoning,
astray,
adrift;
at sea,
at fault,
at a loss,
at one's wit's end,
at a nonplus;
puzzled
etc.
v.;
lost,
abroad,
d_esorient_e;
distracted,
distraught.
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Roget 177:
liable,
subject;
in danger
etc.
665;
open to,
exposed to,
obnoxious to;
answerable;
unexempt from†;
apt to;
dependent on;
incident to.
contingent,
incidental,
possible,
on the cards,
within range of,
at the mercy of.
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3 contingent
Uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances.
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contingents
noun
Roget 635:
material,
raw material,
stuff,
stock,
staple;
adobe,
brown stone;
chinking;
clapboard;
daubing;
puncheon;
shake;
shingle,
bricks and mortar;
metal;
stone;
clay,
brick crockery
etc.
384;
compo,
composition;
concrete;
reinforced concrete,
cement;
wood,
ore,
timber.
materials;
supplies,
munition,
fuel,
grist,
household stuff pabulum
etc.
(food)
298;
ammunition
etc.
(arms)
727;
contingents;
relay,
reinforcement,
reenforcement†;
baggage
etc.
(personal property)
780;
means
etc.
632;
calico,
cambric,
cashmere.
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Roget 707:
aid,
aidance†;
assistance,
help,
opitulation†,
succor;
support,
lift,
advance,
furtherance,
promotion;
coadjuvancy
etc.
(cooperation)
709†.
patronage,
championship,
countenance,
favor,
interest,
advocacy.
sustentation,
subvention,
alimentation,
nutrition,
nourishment;
eutrophy;
manna in the wilderness;
food
etc.
298;
means
etc.
632.
ministry,
ministration;
subministration†;
accommodation.
relief,
rescue;
help at a dead lift;
supernatural aid;
deus ex machina [Lat.].
supplies,
reinforcements,
reenforcements†,
succors,
contingents,
recruits;
support
etc.
(physical)
215;
adjunct,
ally
etc.
(helper)
711.
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