Definition of contingent in English:

contingent

adjective kənˈtɪndʒ(ə)ntkənˈtɪndʒənt

1Subject to chance.
the contingent nature of the job
Example sentencesExamples
- In any case, it fully confirms it as concerns one essential point, what I have called the contingent nature of society and the attendant pathos.
- Too, in the casual encounter that may turn into commitment, the contingent nature of existence can be clearly shown.
- That the emotions have a history implies that subjects are historically contingent and open to the possibility that they are hence culturally determined.
- Most of our doors are double locked as though to emphasize the contingent nature of dwelling.
- In turn, articulating cultural practices of the subjects so constituted mark contingent collective ‘histories’ with variable new meanings.
- As a rule, Leibniz emphasized the certainty of his metaphysical principles rather than the contingent nature of empirical knowledge.
- It is not a mere question of genetics; heritage is not simply the legacy of blood-relations, but of a multiple and contingent nature.
- Where protest embodies an actual challenge to the stability of government power or ruling social elites, the contingent nature of that right emerges.
- The era Gill refers to as ‘colonial’ has both a more extended temporal continuity and a more contingent nature.
- From this vantage point, the unfolding of life can be viewed as a tapestry in which every new thread is contingent upon the nature, timing, and interweaving of virtually all previous threads.
- Painters, we have seen, evinced a new sensitivity to the contingent nature of their means of expression.
- Such exploration calls for a theory of the subject as a contingent psychocultural construct implicated in the visual sign.
- Yes, hard work is important but people are afraid to admit how contingent they are on chance and luck.
- The subject is a historically contingent effect, but to see ourselves as purely victims of historical and spatial imperatives is to limit our understanding of what it is to be human.
- Unfortunately, little comment on the subject in political debate deals with these contingent matters.
- They are contingent and subject to error and influence like any other form of knowledge.
- Now the works of men are contingent, as being subject to free choice.
- The postmodern perspective, on the other hand, views the movement of historical time to be radically contingent and unpredictable.
- The Convention points to the primacy of children's rights over parental rights and to the contingent nature of parental rights.
- Both artists acknowledged the contingent nature of the exhibition and their material relationship to the site itself, in these days an exemplary act of formal courtesy.
Synonyms
chance, accidental, fortuitous, possible, unforeseen, unforeseeable, unexpected, unpredicted, unpredictable, unanticipated, unlooked-for
random, haphazard
1. 1.1 (of losses, liabilities, etc.) that can be anticipated to arise if a particular event occurs.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Another important area of concern to fiduciary investors is information transparency, in particular contingent liabilities.
  That will remove a huge contingent liability on the banking system.
  Look closely at contingent liabilities, which will be listed in the notes to the accounts.
  The contingent liability has now crystallised into a €113 million charge in the profit and loss account.
  If the potential liability is material enough it will have to be disclosed in notes in the company's accounts as a contingent liability.
  They also recommended the issuance of a policy letter instructing award-fee officials to commit funds as contingent liabilities when evaluation periods begin.
  The outstanding leave entitlement is absolutely crippling that organisation, and because of this nonsense its contingent liability has just gone through the roof.
  Such a contingent process may or may not be inefficient and there is nothing that guarantees a particular outcome.
  So the recognition of contingent liabilities in a company's bank account is to create a fund; is that the proposition?
  I do not award damages under the heading of contingent liability for refunds.
  Was there any evidence of any actual, as opposed to contingent liability?
  So the Fund's objection was largely a technicality, because the assets and contingent liabilities of the whole of the public sector remained unchanged.
  Evaluating a company's debt, acquisitions, working capital, contingent liabilities and other accounting intricacies will help spot trouble ahead.
  The extent of the tax difficulties will be established and the sellers will have to provide warranties to the purchasers to cover the contingent liabilities.
  The set-off clause precludes the withdrawals of amounts standing to the customer's credit as long as this liability is contingent.
  A guarantee, he asserted is a contingent liability on the Consolidated Fund.
  No deduction is given for contingent liabilities until they crystallise.
  An option is a future contingent liability whose present value can be estimated with a series of probabilistic and economic assumptions.
  They paid about $5 million for the assets, but there was a contingent liability on the books for redundancy of $35 million.
  The contingent liability remaining on these open years of account is incalculable.
2. 1.2Philosophy True by virtue of the way things in fact are and not by logical necessity.
  that men are living creatures is a contingent fact
  Example sentencesExamples
  Claims to the effect that actual people know actual facts about the world are contingent propositions about the world.
  For example, ‘Unicorns exist’ is a contingent proposition.
  For example, it is necessarily true that all ravens can be black, but it is only a matter of contingent fact that all ravens examined have been black.
  The empirical and contingent conditions of effective agency set the terms of permissibility because it is through effective agency that autonomy is expressed (made real).
  Thus a reference to a singular contingent fact to explain why you never succeed in killing your younger self seems not to fulfil the requirement of being an explanation.
  That stones released near the surface of the Earth invariably travel downwards is a contingent fact that could conceivably have been otherwise.
  We use them in arguing from contingent premises about which we are often less than completely certain.
  Hence, God is a logically contingent being and so could have not-existed.
  For Pelagius, sin and evil were a contingent, non-necessary fact.
  Where are the historical and contingent facts?
  For Zahar, the apparent difference between mass and energy arises from the contingent fact that our senses perceive mass and energy differently.
  But these merely contingent facts have no bearing on the question of whether the paradox has any logical force.
  It was a contingent fact - not an a priori truth - that they were not.
  Even the notions we perceive as a priori true may be contingent upon our perceptual framework.
  For some of those who deny dualism and uphold monism claim that their monism is a contingent truth: that it is true, but it might not have been.
  How might a contingent fact be known on the basis of nothing empirical?
  And since this law must have no content provided by sense or desire, or any other contingent aspect of our situation, it must be universal.
  Explanations of the origins of capitalism have thus far taken its advent in Western Europe as a given rather than a contingent fact to be explained.
  That this is the medium of philosophy is not just a contingent fact about philosophy.
  The connections are of logical entailment rather than contingent association.
2contingent on/uponOccurring or existing only if (certain circumstances) are the case; dependent on.
his fees were contingent on the success of his search
Example sentencesExamples
- The only thing the lawyer can make contingent on the success of the suit is her fee.
- Although such a strategy is undoubtedly conceptually attractive, it appears likely that its value in a given circumstance will be contingent on several factors.
- Thus the truth we establish is contingent on the circumstances.
- Our Army's battlefield success is contingent on the right information reaching the right soldier at the right time.
- Whether the net effect is to maintain existing cell size, increase it or reduce it is not part of the theory, but contingent on ecological circumstances.
Synonyms
dependent, conditional
subject to, based on, determined by, hingeing on, resting on, hanging on, controlled by

noun kənˈtɪndʒ(ə)ntkənˈtɪndʒənt

1A group of people sharing a common feature, forming part of a larger group.
a contingent of Japanese businessmen attending a conference
Example sentencesExamples
- There is also a strong contingent of delegates from South Africa and Unesco.
- Most Olympic contingents include psychologists, masseurs, dietitians and other sport scientists, but only the equestrians boast a couple of veterinarians.
- But it was not to be for the Paisley contingent, who had more than their fair share of them last time around.
- Teams from over 60 nations will converge on Paris this week, including the highly-rated South African, Canadian, American and Australian contingents.
- While the pace contingent is threadbare, the spin section is overmanned.
- Culturally, the Polish contingent has held tightly to its folk and national roots, making Polonia more than simply a name.
- The largest number of vendors and the largest contingent of delegates should have been a dynamite combination.
- My general sense of the conference so far is of two colliding contingents, the techies (who are all over the technology aspect of blogging), and the writers.
- The accompanying exhibition will feature the strongest-ever contingent of Scots games producers.
- There are ultrareligious enclaves and secular contingents, professionals and blue-collar workers, the politically active and the uninvolved.
- The rest of the piece featured the Royal contingent.
- It was a psyched crowd watching the American take on the defending champ, with large contingents of both face-painted Americans and Australians cheering on their man.
- One of the biggest contingents was the 20,000 delegates registered by 3,000 non-governmental organisations from 120 states.
- The band has also led Laois contingents through the streets of London and Birmingham on the national saint's day.
- With 18 entries, swimmers form the largest contingent in the delegation.
- Now, the boy, little older than Naoise, seemed adventurous and a little rouge, his eyes darting over all in the male contingent of the party, but settling most of all on Naoise.
- It is generally believed that 16, 175 Australians fought in the Boer War, though this does not allow for double-counting of those who served in two contingents.
- The contingents of Bhutan, Bangladesh and Pakistan also presented cultural items on the occasion.
- The new film is likely to be set before the Second World War, and could feature a strong contingent of British stars.
- Too often, sales would close a major deal with a customer contingent on a feature that engineering had dropped from the release a month before.
Synonyms
group, party, body, band, set
deputation, delegation, mission
detachment, unit, division, squadron, section, company, corps, cohort
informal bunch, gang
1. 1.1 A body of troops or police sent to join a larger force.
  six warships were stationed off the coast with a contingent of 2,000 marines
  Example sentencesExamples
  Now, between the Air Force and Army contingents, there are roughly 270 on the books.
  A team of bomb disposal units and a contingent of police officers arrived on the scene to examine the object.
  The U.S. Marines operate the air-traffic control tower, and a small contingent of U.S. Army troops run the power-production facility.
  The South Korean government said it would not be deterred and would send the next contingent of troops as planned.
  Large police contingents were deployed on the day of the protest.
  Such an army needs to be composed of three elements: garrison troops, mobile contingents, and a central rapid deployment force.
  The commander of the multinational division, incorporating our military contingent, is empowered to ensure tactical interaction with the brigade.
  In addition to a full mobilisation of the Berlin police force, extra contingents of police are being drawn from other states in the east and west of the country.
  During foreign invasions integrated contingents of civilian militias and elements of fragmented state armies had fought foreign invaders.
  Heavy contingent of police and paramilitary forces rushed to the spot.
  Poland, which sent a small contingent of troops to fight in the war, will command the north.
  The deploying contingent includes the commander and the brigade operations command post, which is made up of both soldiers and civilian employees.
  A heavy contingent of defence force personnel and special police disaster and reaction units plan to patrol the summit.
  Courses run by other ministries and agencies train civilian and police specialists for peacekeeping contingents of multinational forces.
  The military contingent is assisting the police by providing a secure environment so law and order can be re-established.
  Tribute was also paid to the 67 British dead during a ceremony attended by a contingent of British police officers.
  Specialized units also could be properly structured to include the appropriate contingents of civil affairs, military police, and psychological operations experts.
  Orders were given to repair the walls and a contingent of 20,000 troops was sent to confront the enemy.
  Military contingents get down to performing their service duties after main forces complete their deployment in a conflict area.
  However, when the train pulled into Salisbury, a large contingent of police officers was waiting for it.
  Synonyms
  unit, detail, squad, troop, outfit, task force, crew, patrol, section, formation

Derivatives

contingently

adverb kənˈtɪndʒəntlikənˈtɪndʒ(ə)ntli

Ascribing moral qualities to Nature, natural substances contingently lethal to humans, knives, or toothbrushes, is simply a category mistake.
Example sentencesExamples
- More to the point, make it hard for the reality that that theory contingently represents to set the conversational agenda.
- According to Aristotle, the first principles of the sciences are not merely contingently true.
- Dasein knows he is only contingently there, ‘thrown’ in the universe as it were, where he does not mean what he says.
- Contingency search firms employ mid-level recruiters who fill positions in the $50,000 - $100,000 range and are usually paid contingently on what they can produce.
- It is not something any individual can experience, and it is not learned contingently.
- There is no combination of words that is equivalent to my meaning, since meaning is somehow ‘attached’ to words, and quite loosely and contingently.
- It was wrong to deduct tax contingently payable on all the properties, when there was no real prospect of a sale of all the investment properties.
- All thinking, meaning, and truth, he believed, relies upon socially standardized signs contingently established by a community of interpreters.
- They will if the toy responds contingently to them.
- He observes it is contingently true that events typically have very few earlier determinants but very many later determinants.
- This creates a massive collage, a contingently constructed ‘dynamic referencing system in which all texts are interrelated.’
- At the heart of the argument lies a concern for some complete, ultimate, or best explanation of what exists contingently.
- For me the innate idea of personhood is a concept that applies necessarily to me, but, from my perspective, only contingently and empirically to you.
- She found that infants whose cries are sensitively and contingently responded to in the first 6 months cry less in the second six months.
- In general, parents who are contingently responsive to their children have been found to have children with a more internalized locus of control.
- I believe truth to be subjective, contingently true, not to be universally true (mostly).
- These activities are contingently rewarding, or utilize management by exception.
- Further, the rational soul does not depend for its operation on the sense-organs, for it is only contingently connected to a body.
- That is, the objection claims that individual things are individual in virtue of features that contingently characterize them, which confuses things with their features.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'of uncertain occurrence'): from Latin contingere 'befall', from con- 'together with' + tangere 'to touch'. The noun sense was originally 'something happening by chance', then 'a person's share resulting from a division, a quota'; the current sense dates from the early 18th century.

Rhymes

astringent, stringent

Definition of contingent in US English:

contingent

adjectivekənˈtɪndʒəntkənˈtinjənt

1Subject to chance.
the contingent nature of the job
Example sentencesExamples
- They are contingent and subject to error and influence like any other form of knowledge.
- Both artists acknowledged the contingent nature of the exhibition and their material relationship to the site itself, in these days an exemplary act of formal courtesy.
- Painters, we have seen, evinced a new sensitivity to the contingent nature of their means of expression.
- In any case, it fully confirms it as concerns one essential point, what I have called the contingent nature of society and the attendant pathos.
- The postmodern perspective, on the other hand, views the movement of historical time to be radically contingent and unpredictable.
- The subject is a historically contingent effect, but to see ourselves as purely victims of historical and spatial imperatives is to limit our understanding of what it is to be human.
- In turn, articulating cultural practices of the subjects so constituted mark contingent collective ‘histories’ with variable new meanings.
- Now the works of men are contingent, as being subject to free choice.
- Where protest embodies an actual challenge to the stability of government power or ruling social elites, the contingent nature of that right emerges.
- Such exploration calls for a theory of the subject as a contingent psychocultural construct implicated in the visual sign.
- The Convention points to the primacy of children's rights over parental rights and to the contingent nature of parental rights.
- From this vantage point, the unfolding of life can be viewed as a tapestry in which every new thread is contingent upon the nature, timing, and interweaving of virtually all previous threads.
- Most of our doors are double locked as though to emphasize the contingent nature of dwelling.
- It is not a mere question of genetics; heritage is not simply the legacy of blood-relations, but of a multiple and contingent nature.
- The era Gill refers to as ‘colonial’ has both a more extended temporal continuity and a more contingent nature.
- As a rule, Leibniz emphasized the certainty of his metaphysical principles rather than the contingent nature of empirical knowledge.
- That the emotions have a history implies that subjects are historically contingent and open to the possibility that they are hence culturally determined.
- Yes, hard work is important but people are afraid to admit how contingent they are on chance and luck.
- Too, in the casual encounter that may turn into commitment, the contingent nature of existence can be clearly shown.
- Unfortunately, little comment on the subject in political debate deals with these contingent matters.
Synonyms
chance, accidental, fortuitous, possible, unforeseen, unforeseeable, unexpected, unpredicted, unpredictable, unanticipated, unlooked-for
1. 1.1 (of losses, liabilities, etc.) that can be anticipated to arise if a particular event occurs.
  businesses need to be aware of their liabilities, both actual and contingent
  Example sentencesExamples
  The contingent liability remaining on these open years of account is incalculable.
  No deduction is given for contingent liabilities until they crystallise.
  That will remove a huge contingent liability on the banking system.
  They also recommended the issuance of a policy letter instructing award-fee officials to commit funds as contingent liabilities when evaluation periods begin.
  I do not award damages under the heading of contingent liability for refunds.
  Evaluating a company's debt, acquisitions, working capital, contingent liabilities and other accounting intricacies will help spot trouble ahead.
  Look closely at contingent liabilities, which will be listed in the notes to the accounts.
  Another important area of concern to fiduciary investors is information transparency, in particular contingent liabilities.
  So the Fund's objection was largely a technicality, because the assets and contingent liabilities of the whole of the public sector remained unchanged.
  A guarantee, he asserted is a contingent liability on the Consolidated Fund.
  The outstanding leave entitlement is absolutely crippling that organisation, and because of this nonsense its contingent liability has just gone through the roof.
  They paid about $5 million for the assets, but there was a contingent liability on the books for redundancy of $35 million.
  The extent of the tax difficulties will be established and the sellers will have to provide warranties to the purchasers to cover the contingent liabilities.
  An option is a future contingent liability whose present value can be estimated with a series of probabilistic and economic assumptions.
  The set-off clause precludes the withdrawals of amounts standing to the customer's credit as long as this liability is contingent.
  So the recognition of contingent liabilities in a company's bank account is to create a fund; is that the proposition?
  If the potential liability is material enough it will have to be disclosed in notes in the company's accounts as a contingent liability.
  Such a contingent process may or may not be inefficient and there is nothing that guarantees a particular outcome.
  The contingent liability has now crystallised into a €113 million charge in the profit and loss account.
  Was there any evidence of any actual, as opposed to contingent liability?
2. 1.2Philosophy True by virtue of the way things in fact are and not by logical necessity.
  that men are living creatures is a contingent fact
  Example sentencesExamples
  For example, ‘Unicorns exist’ is a contingent proposition.
  For Pelagius, sin and evil were a contingent, non-necessary fact.
  For Zahar, the apparent difference between mass and energy arises from the contingent fact that our senses perceive mass and energy differently.
  Even the notions we perceive as a priori true may be contingent upon our perceptual framework.
  And since this law must have no content provided by sense or desire, or any other contingent aspect of our situation, it must be universal.
  It was a contingent fact - not an a priori truth - that they were not.
  Claims to the effect that actual people know actual facts about the world are contingent propositions about the world.
  The connections are of logical entailment rather than contingent association.
  That stones released near the surface of the Earth invariably travel downwards is a contingent fact that could conceivably have been otherwise.
  We use them in arguing from contingent premises about which we are often less than completely certain.
  How might a contingent fact be known on the basis of nothing empirical?
  For example, it is necessarily true that all ravens can be black, but it is only a matter of contingent fact that all ravens examined have been black.
  For some of those who deny dualism and uphold monism claim that their monism is a contingent truth: that it is true, but it might not have been.
  Where are the historical and contingent facts?
  Explanations of the origins of capitalism have thus far taken its advent in Western Europe as a given rather than a contingent fact to be explained.
  But these merely contingent facts have no bearing on the question of whether the paradox has any logical force.
  The empirical and contingent conditions of effective agency set the terms of permissibility because it is through effective agency that autonomy is expressed (made real).
  Thus a reference to a singular contingent fact to explain why you never succeed in killing your younger self seems not to fulfil the requirement of being an explanation.
  That this is the medium of philosophy is not just a contingent fact about philosophy.
  Hence, God is a logically contingent being and so could have not-existed.
2contingent on/uponOccurring or existing only if (certain circumstances) are the case; dependent on.
resolution of the conflict was contingent on the signing of a ceasefire agreement
Example sentencesExamples
- The only thing the lawyer can make contingent on the success of the suit is her fee.
- Thus the truth we establish is contingent on the circumstances.
- Whether the net effect is to maintain existing cell size, increase it or reduce it is not part of the theory, but contingent on ecological circumstances.
- Although such a strategy is undoubtedly conceptually attractive, it appears likely that its value in a given circumstance will be contingent on several factors.
- Our Army's battlefield success is contingent on the right information reaching the right soldier at the right time.
Synonyms
dependent, conditional

nounkənˈtɪndʒəntkənˈtinjənt

1A group of people united by some common feature, forming part of a larger group.
a contingent of Japanese businessmen attending a conference
Example sentencesExamples
- Teams from over 60 nations will converge on Paris this week, including the highly-rated South African, Canadian, American and Australian contingents.
- With 18 entries, swimmers form the largest contingent in the delegation.
- While the pace contingent is threadbare, the spin section is overmanned.
- There are ultrareligious enclaves and secular contingents, professionals and blue-collar workers, the politically active and the uninvolved.
- The largest number of vendors and the largest contingent of delegates should have been a dynamite combination.
- Now, the boy, little older than Naoise, seemed adventurous and a little rouge, his eyes darting over all in the male contingent of the party, but settling most of all on Naoise.
- The rest of the piece featured the Royal contingent.
- The accompanying exhibition will feature the strongest-ever contingent of Scots games producers.
- There is also a strong contingent of delegates from South Africa and Unesco.
- My general sense of the conference so far is of two colliding contingents, the techies (who are all over the technology aspect of blogging), and the writers.
- Too often, sales would close a major deal with a customer contingent on a feature that engineering had dropped from the release a month before.
- It is generally believed that 16, 175 Australians fought in the Boer War, though this does not allow for double-counting of those who served in two contingents.
- One of the biggest contingents was the 20,000 delegates registered by 3,000 non-governmental organisations from 120 states.
- Most Olympic contingents include psychologists, masseurs, dietitians and other sport scientists, but only the equestrians boast a couple of veterinarians.
- The band has also led Laois contingents through the streets of London and Birmingham on the national saint's day.
- Culturally, the Polish contingent has held tightly to its folk and national roots, making Polonia more than simply a name.
- The new film is likely to be set before the Second World War, and could feature a strong contingent of British stars.
- It was a psyched crowd watching the American take on the defending champ, with large contingents of both face-painted Americans and Australians cheering on their man.
- The contingents of Bhutan, Bangladesh and Pakistan also presented cultural items on the occasion.
- But it was not to be for the Paisley contingent, who had more than their fair share of them last time around.
Synonyms
group, party, body, band, set
1. 1.1 A body of troops or police sent to join a larger force in an operation.
  a contingent of 2,000 marines
  Example sentencesExamples
  The deploying contingent includes the commander and the brigade operations command post, which is made up of both soldiers and civilian employees.
  A heavy contingent of defence force personnel and special police disaster and reaction units plan to patrol the summit.
  Orders were given to repair the walls and a contingent of 20,000 troops was sent to confront the enemy.
  However, when the train pulled into Salisbury, a large contingent of police officers was waiting for it.
  Now, between the Air Force and Army contingents, there are roughly 270 on the books.
  Military contingents get down to performing their service duties after main forces complete their deployment in a conflict area.
  Large police contingents were deployed on the day of the protest.
  A team of bomb disposal units and a contingent of police officers arrived on the scene to examine the object.
  During foreign invasions integrated contingents of civilian militias and elements of fragmented state armies had fought foreign invaders.
  In addition to a full mobilisation of the Berlin police force, extra contingents of police are being drawn from other states in the east and west of the country.
  The South Korean government said it would not be deterred and would send the next contingent of troops as planned.
  Heavy contingent of police and paramilitary forces rushed to the spot.
  The commander of the multinational division, incorporating our military contingent, is empowered to ensure tactical interaction with the brigade.
  The U.S. Marines operate the air-traffic control tower, and a small contingent of U.S. Army troops run the power-production facility.
  The military contingent is assisting the police by providing a secure environment so law and order can be re-established.
  Such an army needs to be composed of three elements: garrison troops, mobile contingents, and a central rapid deployment force.
  Courses run by other ministries and agencies train civilian and police specialists for peacekeeping contingents of multinational forces.
  Tribute was also paid to the 67 British dead during a ceremony attended by a contingent of British police officers.
  Specialized units also could be properly structured to include the appropriate contingents of civil affairs, military police, and psychological operations experts.
  Poland, which sent a small contingent of troops to fight in the war, will command the north.
  Synonyms
  unit, detail, squad, troop, outfit, task force, crew, patrol, section, formation

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘of uncertain occurrence’): from Latin contingere ‘befall’, from con- ‘together with’ + tangere ‘to touch’. The noun sense was originally ‘something happening by chance’, then ‘a person's share resulting from a division, a quota’; the current sense dates from the early 18th century.

单词	contingent
释义	Definition of contingent in English: contingent adjective kənˈtɪndʒ(ə)ntkənˈtɪndʒənt 1Subject to chance. the contingent nature of the job Example sentencesExamples In any case, it fully confirms it as concerns one essential point, what I have called the contingent nature of society and the attendant pathos. Too, in the casual encounter that may turn into commitment, the contingent nature of existence can be clearly shown. That the emotions have a history implies that subjects are historically contingent and open to the possibility that they are hence culturally determined. Most of our doors are double locked as though to emphasize the contingent nature of dwelling. In turn, articulating cultural practices of the subjects so constituted mark contingent collective ‘histories’ with variable new meanings. As a rule, Leibniz emphasized the certainty of his metaphysical principles rather than the contingent nature of empirical knowledge. It is not a mere question of genetics; heritage is not simply the legacy of blood-relations, but of a multiple and contingent nature. Where protest embodies an actual challenge to the stability of government power or ruling social elites, the contingent nature of that right emerges. The era Gill refers to as ‘colonial’ has both a more extended temporal continuity and a more contingent nature. From this vantage point, the unfolding of life can be viewed as a tapestry in which every new thread is contingent upon the nature, timing, and interweaving of virtually all previous threads. Painters, we have seen, evinced a new sensitivity to the contingent nature of their means of expression. Such exploration calls for a theory of the subject as a contingent psychocultural construct implicated in the visual sign. Yes, hard work is important but people are afraid to admit how contingent they are on chance and luck. The subject is a historically contingent effect, but to see ourselves as purely victims of historical and spatial imperatives is to limit our understanding of what it is to be human. Unfortunately, little comment on the subject in political debate deals with these contingent matters. They are contingent and subject to error and influence like any other form of knowledge. Now the works of men are contingent, as being subject to free choice. The postmodern perspective, on the other hand, views the movement of historical time to be radically contingent and unpredictable. The Convention points to the primacy of children's rights over parental rights and to the contingent nature of parental rights. Both artists acknowledged the contingent nature of the exhibition and their material relationship to the site itself, in these days an exemplary act of formal courtesy. Synonyms chance, accidental, fortuitous, possible, unforeseen, unforeseeable, unexpected, unpredicted, unpredictable, unanticipated, unlooked-for random, haphazard 1.1 (of losses, liabilities, etc.) that can be anticipated to arise if a particular event occurs. Example sentencesExamples Another important area of concern to fiduciary investors is information transparency, in particular contingent liabilities. That will remove a huge contingent liability on the banking system. Look closely at contingent liabilities, which will be listed in the notes to the accounts. The contingent liability has now crystallised into a €113 million charge in the profit and loss account. If the potential liability is material enough it will have to be disclosed in notes in the company's accounts as a contingent liability. They also recommended the issuance of a policy letter instructing award-fee officials to commit funds as contingent liabilities when evaluation periods begin. The outstanding leave entitlement is absolutely crippling that organisation, and because of this nonsense its contingent liability has just gone through the roof. Such a contingent process may or may not be inefficient and there is nothing that guarantees a particular outcome. So the recognition of contingent liabilities in a company's bank account is to create a fund; is that the proposition? I do not award damages under the heading of contingent liability for refunds. Was there any evidence of any actual, as opposed to contingent liability? So the Fund's objection was largely a technicality, because the assets and contingent liabilities of the whole of the public sector remained unchanged. Evaluating a company's debt, acquisitions, working capital, contingent liabilities and other accounting intricacies will help spot trouble ahead. The extent of the tax difficulties will be established and the sellers will have to provide warranties to the purchasers to cover the contingent liabilities. The set-off clause precludes the withdrawals of amounts standing to the customer's credit as long as this liability is contingent. A guarantee, he asserted is a contingent liability on the Consolidated Fund. No deduction is given for contingent liabilities until they crystallise. An option is a future contingent liability whose present value can be estimated with a series of probabilistic and economic assumptions. They paid about $5 million for the assets, but there was a contingent liability on the books for redundancy of $35 million. The contingent liability remaining on these open years of account is incalculable. 1.2Philosophy True by virtue of the way things in fact are and not by logical necessity. that men are living creatures is a contingent fact Example sentencesExamples Claims to the effect that actual people know actual facts about the world are contingent propositions about the world. For example, ‘Unicorns exist’ is a contingent proposition. For example, it is necessarily true that all ravens can be black, but it is only a matter of contingent fact that all ravens examined have been black. The empirical and contingent conditions of effective agency set the terms of permissibility because it is through effective agency that autonomy is expressed (made real). Thus a reference to a singular contingent fact to explain why you never succeed in killing your younger self seems not to fulfil the requirement of being an explanation. That stones released near the surface of the Earth invariably travel downwards is a contingent fact that could conceivably have been otherwise. We use them in arguing from contingent premises about which we are often less than completely certain. Hence, God is a logically contingent being and so could have not-existed. For Pelagius, sin and evil were a contingent, non-necessary fact. Where are the historical and contingent facts? For Zahar, the apparent difference between mass and energy arises from the contingent fact that our senses perceive mass and energy differently. But these merely contingent facts have no bearing on the question of whether the paradox has any logical force. It was a contingent fact - not an a priori truth - that they were not. Even the notions we perceive as a priori true may be contingent upon our perceptual framework. For some of those who deny dualism and uphold monism claim that their monism is a contingent truth: that it is true, but it might not have been. How might a contingent fact be known on the basis of nothing empirical? And since this law must have no content provided by sense or desire, or any other contingent aspect of our situation, it must be universal. Explanations of the origins of capitalism have thus far taken its advent in Western Europe as a given rather than a contingent fact to be explained. That this is the medium of philosophy is not just a contingent fact about philosophy. The connections are of logical entailment rather than contingent association. 2contingent on/uponOccurring or existing only if (certain circumstances) are the case; dependent on. his fees were contingent on the success of his search Example sentencesExamples The only thing the lawyer can make contingent on the success of the suit is her fee. Although such a strategy is undoubtedly conceptually attractive, it appears likely that its value in a given circumstance will be contingent on several factors. Thus the truth we establish is contingent on the circumstances. Our Army's battlefield success is contingent on the right information reaching the right soldier at the right time. Whether the net effect is to maintain existing cell size, increase it or reduce it is not part of the theory, but contingent on ecological circumstances. Synonyms dependent, conditional subject to, based on, determined by, hingeing on, resting on, hanging on, controlled by noun kənˈtɪndʒ(ə)ntkənˈtɪndʒənt 1A group of people sharing a common feature, forming part of a larger group. a contingent of Japanese businessmen attending a conference Example sentencesExamples There is also a strong contingent of delegates from South Africa and Unesco. Most Olympic contingents include psychologists, masseurs, dietitians and other sport scientists, but only the equestrians boast a couple of veterinarians. But it was not to be for the Paisley contingent, who had more than their fair share of them last time around. Teams from over 60 nations will converge on Paris this week, including the highly-rated South African, Canadian, American and Australian contingents. While the pace contingent is threadbare, the spin section is overmanned. Culturally, the Polish contingent has held tightly to its folk and national roots, making Polonia more than simply a name. The largest number of vendors and the largest contingent of delegates should have been a dynamite combination. My general sense of the conference so far is of two colliding contingents, the techies (who are all over the technology aspect of blogging), and the writers. The accompanying exhibition will feature the strongest-ever contingent of Scots games producers. There are ultrareligious enclaves and secular contingents, professionals and blue-collar workers, the politically active and the uninvolved. The rest of the piece featured the Royal contingent. It was a psyched crowd watching the American take on the defending champ, with large contingents of both face-painted Americans and Australians cheering on their man. One of the biggest contingents was the 20,000 delegates registered by 3,000 non-governmental organisations from 120 states. The band has also led Laois contingents through the streets of London and Birmingham on the national saint's day. With 18 entries, swimmers form the largest contingent in the delegation. Now, the boy, little older than Naoise, seemed adventurous and a little rouge, his eyes darting over all in the male contingent of the party, but settling most of all on Naoise. It is generally believed that 16, 175 Australians fought in the Boer War, though this does not allow for double-counting of those who served in two contingents. The contingents of Bhutan, Bangladesh and Pakistan also presented cultural items on the occasion. The new film is likely to be set before the Second World War, and could feature a strong contingent of British stars. Too often, sales would close a major deal with a customer contingent on a feature that engineering had dropped from the release a month before. Synonyms group, party, body, band, set deputation, delegation, mission detachment, unit, division, squadron, section, company, corps, cohort informal bunch, gang 1.1 A body of troops or police sent to join a larger force. six warships were stationed off the coast with a contingent of 2,000 marines Example sentencesExamples Now, between the Air Force and Army contingents, there are roughly 270 on the books. A team of bomb disposal units and a contingent of police officers arrived on the scene to examine the object. The U.S. Marines operate the air-traffic control tower, and a small contingent of U.S. Army troops run the power-production facility. The South Korean government said it would not be deterred and would send the next contingent of troops as planned. Large police contingents were deployed on the day of the protest. Such an army needs to be composed of three elements: garrison troops, mobile contingents, and a central rapid deployment force. The commander of the multinational division, incorporating our military contingent, is empowered to ensure tactical interaction with the brigade. In addition to a full mobilisation of the Berlin police force, extra contingents of police are being drawn from other states in the east and west of the country. During foreign invasions integrated contingents of civilian militias and elements of fragmented state armies had fought foreign invaders. Heavy contingent of police and paramilitary forces rushed to the spot. Poland, which sent a small contingent of troops to fight in the war, will command the north. The deploying contingent includes the commander and the brigade operations command post, which is made up of both soldiers and civilian employees. A heavy contingent of defence force personnel and special police disaster and reaction units plan to patrol the summit. Courses run by other ministries and agencies train civilian and police specialists for peacekeeping contingents of multinational forces. The military contingent is assisting the police by providing a secure environment so law and order can be re-established. Tribute was also paid to the 67 British dead during a ceremony attended by a contingent of British police officers. Specialized units also could be properly structured to include the appropriate contingents of civil affairs, military police, and psychological operations experts. Orders were given to repair the walls and a contingent of 20,000 troops was sent to confront the enemy. Military contingents get down to performing their service duties after main forces complete their deployment in a conflict area. However, when the train pulled into Salisbury, a large contingent of police officers was waiting for it. Synonyms unit, detail, squad, troop, outfit, task force, crew, patrol, section, formation Derivatives contingently adverb kənˈtɪndʒəntlikənˈtɪndʒ(ə)ntli Ascribing moral qualities to Nature, natural substances contingently lethal to humans, knives, or toothbrushes, is simply a category mistake. Example sentencesExamples More to the point, make it hard for the reality that that theory contingently represents to set the conversational agenda. According to Aristotle, the first principles of the sciences are not merely contingently true. Dasein knows he is only contingently there, ‘thrown’ in the universe as it were, where he does not mean what he says. Contingency search firms employ mid-level recruiters who fill positions in the $50,000 - $100,000 range and are usually paid contingently on what they can produce. It is not something any individual can experience, and it is not learned contingently. There is no combination of words that is equivalent to my meaning, since meaning is somehow ‘attached’ to words, and quite loosely and contingently. It was wrong to deduct tax contingently payable on all the properties, when there was no real prospect of a sale of all the investment properties. All thinking, meaning, and truth, he believed, relies upon socially standardized signs contingently established by a community of interpreters. They will if the toy responds contingently to them. He observes it is contingently true that events typically have very few earlier determinants but very many later determinants. This creates a massive collage, a contingently constructed ‘dynamic referencing system in which all texts are interrelated.’ At the heart of the argument lies a concern for some complete, ultimate, or best explanation of what exists contingently. For me the innate idea of personhood is a concept that applies necessarily to me, but, from my perspective, only contingently and empirically to you. She found that infants whose cries are sensitively and contingently responded to in the first 6 months cry less in the second six months. In general, parents who are contingently responsive to their children have been found to have children with a more internalized locus of control. I believe truth to be subjective, contingently true, not to be universally true (mostly). These activities are contingently rewarding, or utilize management by exception. Further, the rational soul does not depend for its operation on the sense-organs, for it is only contingently connected to a body. That is, the objection claims that individual things are individual in virtue of features that contingently characterize them, which confuses things with their features. Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'of uncertain occurrence'): from Latin contingere 'befall', from con- 'together with' + tangere 'to touch'. The noun sense was originally 'something happening by chance', then 'a person's share resulting from a division, a quota'; the current sense dates from the early 18th century. Rhymes astringent, stringent Definition of contingent in US English: contingent adjectivekənˈtɪndʒəntkənˈtinjənt 1Subject to chance. the contingent nature of the job Example sentencesExamples They are contingent and subject to error and influence like any other form of knowledge. Both artists acknowledged the contingent nature of the exhibition and their material relationship to the site itself, in these days an exemplary act of formal courtesy. Painters, we have seen, evinced a new sensitivity to the contingent nature of their means of expression. In any case, it fully confirms it as concerns one essential point, what I have called the contingent nature of society and the attendant pathos. The postmodern perspective, on the other hand, views the movement of historical time to be radically contingent and unpredictable. The subject is a historically contingent effect, but to see ourselves as purely victims of historical and spatial imperatives is to limit our understanding of what it is to be human. In turn, articulating cultural practices of the subjects so constituted mark contingent collective ‘histories’ with variable new meanings. Now the works of men are contingent, as being subject to free choice. Where protest embodies an actual challenge to the stability of government power or ruling social elites, the contingent nature of that right emerges. Such exploration calls for a theory of the subject as a contingent psychocultural construct implicated in the visual sign. The Convention points to the primacy of children's rights over parental rights and to the contingent nature of parental rights. From this vantage point, the unfolding of life can be viewed as a tapestry in which every new thread is contingent upon the nature, timing, and interweaving of virtually all previous threads. Most of our doors are double locked as though to emphasize the contingent nature of dwelling. It is not a mere question of genetics; heritage is not simply the legacy of blood-relations, but of a multiple and contingent nature. The era Gill refers to as ‘colonial’ has both a more extended temporal continuity and a more contingent nature. As a rule, Leibniz emphasized the certainty of his metaphysical principles rather than the contingent nature of empirical knowledge. That the emotions have a history implies that subjects are historically contingent and open to the possibility that they are hence culturally determined. Yes, hard work is important but people are afraid to admit how contingent they are on chance and luck. Too, in the casual encounter that may turn into commitment, the contingent nature of existence can be clearly shown. Unfortunately, little comment on the subject in political debate deals with these contingent matters. Synonyms chance, accidental, fortuitous, possible, unforeseen, unforeseeable, unexpected, unpredicted, unpredictable, unanticipated, unlooked-for 1.1 (of losses, liabilities, etc.) that can be anticipated to arise if a particular event occurs. businesses need to be aware of their liabilities, both actual and contingent Example sentencesExamples The contingent liability remaining on these open years of account is incalculable. No deduction is given for contingent liabilities until they crystallise. That will remove a huge contingent liability on the banking system. They also recommended the issuance of a policy letter instructing award-fee officials to commit funds as contingent liabilities when evaluation periods begin. I do not award damages under the heading of contingent liability for refunds. Evaluating a company's debt, acquisitions, working capital, contingent liabilities and other accounting intricacies will help spot trouble ahead. Look closely at contingent liabilities, which will be listed in the notes to the accounts. Another important area of concern to fiduciary investors is information transparency, in particular contingent liabilities. So the Fund's objection was largely a technicality, because the assets and contingent liabilities of the whole of the public sector remained unchanged. A guarantee, he asserted is a contingent liability on the Consolidated Fund. The outstanding leave entitlement is absolutely crippling that organisation, and because of this nonsense its contingent liability has just gone through the roof. They paid about $5 million for the assets, but there was a contingent liability on the books for redundancy of $35 million. The extent of the tax difficulties will be established and the sellers will have to provide warranties to the purchasers to cover the contingent liabilities. An option is a future contingent liability whose present value can be estimated with a series of probabilistic and economic assumptions. The set-off clause precludes the withdrawals of amounts standing to the customer's credit as long as this liability is contingent. So the recognition of contingent liabilities in a company's bank account is to create a fund; is that the proposition? If the potential liability is material enough it will have to be disclosed in notes in the company's accounts as a contingent liability. Such a contingent process may or may not be inefficient and there is nothing that guarantees a particular outcome. The contingent liability has now crystallised into a €113 million charge in the profit and loss account. Was there any evidence of any actual, as opposed to contingent liability? 1.2Philosophy True by virtue of the way things in fact are and not by logical necessity. that men are living creatures is a contingent fact Example sentencesExamples For example, ‘Unicorns exist’ is a contingent proposition. For Pelagius, sin and evil were a contingent, non-necessary fact. For Zahar, the apparent difference between mass and energy arises from the contingent fact that our senses perceive mass and energy differently. Even the notions we perceive as a priori true may be contingent upon our perceptual framework. And since this law must have no content provided by sense or desire, or any other contingent aspect of our situation, it must be universal. It was a contingent fact - not an a priori truth - that they were not. Claims to the effect that actual people know actual facts about the world are contingent propositions about the world. The connections are of logical entailment rather than contingent association. That stones released near the surface of the Earth invariably travel downwards is a contingent fact that could conceivably have been otherwise. We use them in arguing from contingent premises about which we are often less than completely certain. How might a contingent fact be known on the basis of nothing empirical? For example, it is necessarily true that all ravens can be black, but it is only a matter of contingent fact that all ravens examined have been black. For some of those who deny dualism and uphold monism claim that their monism is a contingent truth: that it is true, but it might not have been. Where are the historical and contingent facts? Explanations of the origins of capitalism have thus far taken its advent in Western Europe as a given rather than a contingent fact to be explained. But these merely contingent facts have no bearing on the question of whether the paradox has any logical force. The empirical and contingent conditions of effective agency set the terms of permissibility because it is through effective agency that autonomy is expressed (made real). Thus a reference to a singular contingent fact to explain why you never succeed in killing your younger self seems not to fulfil the requirement of being an explanation. That this is the medium of philosophy is not just a contingent fact about philosophy. Hence, God is a logically contingent being and so could have not-existed. 2contingent on/uponOccurring or existing only if (certain circumstances) are the case; dependent on. resolution of the conflict was contingent on the signing of a ceasefire agreement Example sentencesExamples The only thing the lawyer can make contingent on the success of the suit is her fee. Thus the truth we establish is contingent on the circumstances. Whether the net effect is to maintain existing cell size, increase it or reduce it is not part of the theory, but contingent on ecological circumstances. Although such a strategy is undoubtedly conceptually attractive, it appears likely that its value in a given circumstance will be contingent on several factors. Our Army's battlefield success is contingent on the right information reaching the right soldier at the right time. Synonyms dependent, conditional nounkənˈtɪndʒəntkənˈtinjənt 1A group of people united by some common feature, forming part of a larger group. a contingent of Japanese businessmen attending a conference Example sentencesExamples Teams from over 60 nations will converge on Paris this week, including the highly-rated South African, Canadian, American and Australian contingents. With 18 entries, swimmers form the largest contingent in the delegation. While the pace contingent is threadbare, the spin section is overmanned. There are ultrareligious enclaves and secular contingents, professionals and blue-collar workers, the politically active and the uninvolved. The largest number of vendors and the largest contingent of delegates should have been a dynamite combination. Now, the boy, little older than Naoise, seemed adventurous and a little rouge, his eyes darting over all in the male contingent of the party, but settling most of all on Naoise. The rest of the piece featured the Royal contingent. The accompanying exhibition will feature the strongest-ever contingent of Scots games producers. There is also a strong contingent of delegates from South Africa and Unesco. My general sense of the conference so far is of two colliding contingents, the techies (who are all over the technology aspect of blogging), and the writers. Too often, sales would close a major deal with a customer contingent on a feature that engineering had dropped from the release a month before. It is generally believed that 16, 175 Australians fought in the Boer War, though this does not allow for double-counting of those who served in two contingents. One of the biggest contingents was the 20,000 delegates registered by 3,000 non-governmental organisations from 120 states. Most Olympic contingents include psychologists, masseurs, dietitians and other sport scientists, but only the equestrians boast a couple of veterinarians. The band has also led Laois contingents through the streets of London and Birmingham on the national saint's day. Culturally, the Polish contingent has held tightly to its folk and national roots, making Polonia more than simply a name. The new film is likely to be set before the Second World War, and could feature a strong contingent of British stars. It was a psyched crowd watching the American take on the defending champ, with large contingents of both face-painted Americans and Australians cheering on their man. The contingents of Bhutan, Bangladesh and Pakistan also presented cultural items on the occasion. But it was not to be for the Paisley contingent, who had more than their fair share of them last time around. Synonyms group, party, body, band, set 1.1 A body of troops or police sent to join a larger force in an operation. a contingent of 2,000 marines Example sentencesExamples The deploying contingent includes the commander and the brigade operations command post, which is made up of both soldiers and civilian employees. A heavy contingent of defence force personnel and special police disaster and reaction units plan to patrol the summit. Orders were given to repair the walls and a contingent of 20,000 troops was sent to confront the enemy. However, when the train pulled into Salisbury, a large contingent of police officers was waiting for it. Now, between the Air Force and Army contingents, there are roughly 270 on the books. Military contingents get down to performing their service duties after main forces complete their deployment in a conflict area. Large police contingents were deployed on the day of the protest. A team of bomb disposal units and a contingent of police officers arrived on the scene to examine the object. During foreign invasions integrated contingents of civilian militias and elements of fragmented state armies had fought foreign invaders. In addition to a full mobilisation of the Berlin police force, extra contingents of police are being drawn from other states in the east and west of the country. The South Korean government said it would not be deterred and would send the next contingent of troops as planned. Heavy contingent of police and paramilitary forces rushed to the spot. The commander of the multinational division, incorporating our military contingent, is empowered to ensure tactical interaction with the brigade. The U.S. Marines operate the air-traffic control tower, and a small contingent of U.S. Army troops run the power-production facility. The military contingent is assisting the police by providing a secure environment so law and order can be re-established. Such an army needs to be composed of three elements: garrison troops, mobile contingents, and a central rapid deployment force. Courses run by other ministries and agencies train civilian and police specialists for peacekeeping contingents of multinational forces. Tribute was also paid to the 67 British dead during a ceremony attended by a contingent of British police officers. Specialized units also could be properly structured to include the appropriate contingents of civil affairs, military police, and psychological operations experts. Poland, which sent a small contingent of troops to fight in the war, will command the north. Synonyms unit, detail, squad, troop, outfit, task force, crew, patrol, section, formation Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘of uncertain occurrence’): from Latin contingere ‘befall’, from con- ‘together with’ + tangere ‘to touch’. The noun sense was originally ‘something happening by chance’, then ‘a person's share resulting from a division, a quota’; the current sense dates from the early 18th century.
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