contingent
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /kənˈtɪn.dʒənt/
contingent (plural contingents)
- An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future.
- Synonyms: contingency
- That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share.
- Synonyms: proportion
- (military) A quota of troops.
- 2014, Ian Black, "Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis ↗", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:
- 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, Ian Black, "Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis ↗", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:
- Italian: imprevisto, casualità, eventualità
- Spanish: contingente
- German: Anteil, Kontingent
- Portuguese: contingência
- Russian: до́ля
- Spanish: contingente
- German: Kontingent, Truppenkontingent
- Italian: contingente, scaglione, unità, reparto, quota
- Spanish: contingente
contingent
- Possible or liable, but not certain to occur.
- Synonyms: incidental, casual
- Antonyms: certain, inevitable, necessary, impossible
- (with upon or on) Dependent on something that is undetermined or unknown.
- Synonyms: conditional, Thesaurus:conditional
- The success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he cannot control.
- Dependent on something that may or may not occur.
- a contingent estate
- Not logically necessarily true or false.
- Temporary.
- contingent labor
- contingent worker
- French: contingent, éventuel, hypothétique
- German: möglich, kontingent
- Italian: contingente, casuale, transitorio, accidentale, fortuito
- Portuguese: contingente
- Russian: возмо́жный
- Spanish: contingente
- Portuguese: contingente
- Portuguese: contingente
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