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contingent en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /kənˈtɪn.d͡ʒənt/
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Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French contingent (whence con- and -ent), from Medieval Latin contingens (“possible, contingent”), present participle of contingere (“to touch, meet, attain to, happen”), from com- (“together”) + tangere (“to touch”).

Meanings

1. Possible or liable, but not certain, to occur.
2. (with upon or on) Dependent on something that is undetermined or unknown, that may or may not occur.
   • a contingent estate
   • The success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he cannot control.
   • Both Catalan parties have said their support for getting the PSOE back into office will be contingent on an amnesty for the hundreds of people who participated in the failed push to secede from Spain in October 2017. 2023 November 5, Sam Jones, “PSOE members back Catalan amnesty plan to secure power in Spain”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
   • The imposition of the death penalty should not be contingent on a particular jury's unguided understanding of a legal term of art. 1989, Thurgood Marshall, “Dissenting Opinion”, in Watkins v. Murray:
   • This rather narrow theological dispute eventually helped eradicate from Western philosophy the idea of universals—the notion that concepts in the mind correspond to eternal truths, like the Platonic forms—and succeeded in making the world, as Blumenberg puts it, “radically contingent.” 2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, quoting Hans Blumenberg, chapter 11, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […] , →ISBN:
3. Not logically necessarily true or false.
4. Temporary.
   • contingent labor
   • contingent worker

Forms

Antonyms

impossible · certain · noncontingent · necessary · inevitable

Deriveds

contingentism · contingentness · contingence · contact · contingency · contingently

Relateds

contingent remainder · contingent claim · contingent charge · contingent symbiosis · contingent valuation

Synonyms

contingent · conditional · conditioned · incidental · conditional · qualified · casual

Translations (41)

de kontingent (possible, liable, incidental, casual) · tr muhtemel (possible, liable, incidental, casual) · it fortuito (possible, liable, incidental, casual) · es supeditado a (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur) · it accidentale (possible, liable, incidental, casual) · fi mahdollinen (possible, liable, incidental, casual) · sv oviss (possible, liable, incidental, casual) · fa وابسته (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur) · bg условен (possible, liable, incidental, casual) · sv eventuell (possible, liable, incidental, casual) · es contingente (possible, liable, incidental, casual) · de möglich (possible, liable, incidental, casual) · fr contingent (possible, liable, incidental, casual) · it transitorio (possible, liable, incidental, casual) · ar مَشْرُوْط (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur) · de etwaig (possible, liable, incidental, casual) · tr bağlı (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur) · sv beroende (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur) · tr olası (possible, liable, incidental, casual) · fi ehdollinen (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur) · sv avhängig (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur) · nl contingent (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur) · bg зависещ (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur) · sv möjlig (possible, liable, incidental, casual) · ru возмо́жный (possible, liable, incidental, casual) · bg случаен (possible, liable, incidental, casual) · nl eventueel (possible, liable, incidental, casual) · pt contingente (possible, liable, incidental, casual) · fr hypothétique (possible, liable, incidental, casual) · it casuale (possible, liable, incidental, casual) · sv villkorlig (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur) · fr éventuel (possible, liable, incidental, casual) · bg случаен (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur) · de abhängig (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur) · ru случа́йный (possible, liable, incidental, casual) · fi riippuvainen (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur) · de eventuell (possible, liable, incidental, casual) · pt contingente (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur) · nl contingent (possible, liable, incidental, casual) · it contingente (possible, liable, incidental, casual) · ja 偶然の (possible, liable, incidental, casual)

contingent en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /kənˈtɪn.d͡ʒənt/
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Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French contingent (whence con- and -ent), from Medieval Latin contingens (“possible, contingent”), present participle of contingere (“to touch, meet, attain to, happen”), from com- (“together”) + tangere (“to touch”).

Meanings

1. An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something in the future.
2. That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share.
3. A quota of troops.
   • Arrests and prosecutions intensified after Isis captured Mosul in June, but the groundwork had been laid by an earlier amendment to Jordan’s anti-terrorism law. It is estimated that 2,000 Jordanians have fought and 250 of them have died in Syria – making them the third largest Arab contingent in Isis after Saudi Arabians and Tunisians. 2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian:

Forms

Synonyms

contingency · possibility · eventuality · proportion · contingency · potentiality · contingent · chance

Translations (35)

es contingente (that which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number) · bg пай (that which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number) · sv andel (that which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number) · de Anteil (that which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number) · da kontingent (a quota of troops) · de Truppenkontingent (a quota of troops) · sq kontingjent (a quota of troops) · it quota (a quota of troops) · ru до́ля (that which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number) · it scaglione (a quota of troops) · es contingente (a quota of troops) · tr koşullu (that which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number) · uk континге́нт (a quota of troops) · sh kontingent (a quota of troops) · ru кво́та (that which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number) · pt contingência (that which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number) · ga meitheal (a quota of troops) · it contingente (a quota of troops) · el ενδεχόμενο (that which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number) · bg контингент (that which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number) · ru пай (that which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number) · ka კონტინგენტი (a quota of troops) · bg дял (that which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number) · de Kontingent (a quota of troops) · sq kontingjenti (a quota of troops) · uk континге́нт (that which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number) · fi osuus (that which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number) · ru континге́нт (that which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number) · it unità (a quota of troops) · it reparto (a quota of troops) · ru континге́нт (a quota of troops) · de Kontingent (that which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number) · nn kontingent (a quota of troops) · fi komennuskunta (a quota of troops) · nb kontingent (a quota of troops)