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contingent

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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle English, fromOld Frenchcontingent, fromMedieval Latincontingens(possible, contingent), present participle ofcontingere(to touch, meet, attain to, happen), fromcom-(together) +tangere(to touch).

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Noun

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contingent (pluralcontingents)

  1. Anevent which may or may not happen; that which isunforeseen,undetermined, ordependent on something in the future.
    Synonyms:contingency;see alsoThesaurus:possibility
  2. That which falls to one in adivision orapportionment among a number; a suitableshare.
    Synonym:proportion
  3. (military) Aquota oftroops.
    • 2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, inThe Guardian:
      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 Arabcontingent in Isis after Saudi Arabians and Tunisians.

Translations

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an event which may or may not happenseecontingency
that which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number
a quota of troops

Adjective

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contingent (comparativemorecontingent,superlativemostcontingent)

  1. Possible orliable, but notcertain, tooccur.
    Synonyms:incidental,casual
    Antonyms:certain,inevitable,necessary,impossible
  2. (withupon oron)Dependent on something that isundetermined orunknown, that may or may not occur.
    Synonyms:conditional;see alsoThesaurus:conditional
    The success of his undertaking iscontingent upon events which he cannot control.
    acontingent estate
    • 1989,Thurgood Marshall, “Dissenting Opinion”, inWatkins v. Murray[1]:
      The imposition of the death penalty should not becontingent on a particular jury's unguided understanding of a legal term of art.
    • 2021,Meghan O'Gieblyn, quotingHans Blumenberg, chapter 11, inGod, Human, Animal, Machine [] ,→ISBN:
      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, “radicallycontingent.”
    • 2023 November 5, Sam Jones, “PSOE members back Catalan amnesty plan to secure power in Spain”, inThe Guardian[2],→ISSN:
      Both Catalan parties have said their support for getting the PSOE back into office will becontingent on an amnesty for the hundreds of people who participated in the failed push to secede from Spain in October 2017.
  3. Notlogically necessarily true or false.
  4. Temporary.
    contingent labor
    contingent worker

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Translations

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possible, liable, incidental, casual
dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur
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Further reading

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Anagrams

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatincontingentem.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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contingent m orf (masculine and feminine pluralcontingents)

  1. contingent

Noun

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contingent m (pluralcontingents)

  1. contingent

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Further reading

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatincontingentem.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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contingent (femininecontingente,masculine pluralcontingents,feminine pluralcontingentes)

  1. contingent

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Noun

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contingent m (pluralcontingents)

  1. quota
  2. contingent

Further reading

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Latin

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Verb

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contingent

  1. third-personpluralfutureactiveindicative ofcontingō

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromFrenchcontingent, fromLatincontingens.

Adjective

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contingent m orn (feminine singularcontingentă,masculine pluralcontingenți,feminine/neuter pluralcontingente)

  1. contingent

Declension

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Declension ofcontingent
singularplural
masculineneuterfemininemasculineneuterfeminine
nominative-
accusative
indefinitecontingentcontingentăcontingențicontingente
definitecontingentulcontingentacontingențiicontingentele
genitive-
dative
indefinitecontingentcontingentecontingențicontingente
definitecontingentuluicontingenteicontingențilorcontingentelor
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