contingent
Word Statistics
Academic vocabulary
Regularly used in writing and speech
Moderate complexity
Analysis:
- • Academic vocabulary
- • Standard complexity
noun
1. An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future.
2. That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share.
3. A quota of troops.
Synonyms
adjective
1. Possible or liable, but not certain to occur.
2. (with upon or on) Dependent on something that is undetermined or unknown.
"The success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he cannot control."
3. Dependent on something that may or may not occur.
"a contingent estate"
4. Not logically necessarily true or false.
5. Temporary.
"contingent labor"
Synonyms
Source: en.wiktionary.org
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