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| 1. | dependent for existence, occurrence, character, etc., on something not yet certain; conditional (often fol. by on or upon): Our plans are contingent on the weather. |
| 2. | liable to happen or not; uncertain; possible: They had to plan for contingent expenses. |
| 3. | happening by chance or without known cause; fortuitous; accidental: contingent occurrences. |
| 4. | Logic. (of a proposition) neither logically necessary nor logically impossible, so that its truth or falsity can be established only by sensory observation. |
| 5. | a quota of troops furnished. |
| 6. | any one of the representative groups composing an assemblage: the New York contingent at a national convention. |
| 7. | the proportion that falls to one as a share to be contributed or furnished. |
| 8. | something contingent; contingency. |