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Contingent   /kəntˈɪndʒənt/   Listen
Contingent

noun
1.
A gathering of persons representative of some larger group.
2.
A temporary military unit.  Synonym: detail.
adjective
1.
Possible but not certain to occur.
2.
Determined by conditions or circumstances that follow.  Synonyms: contingent on, contingent upon, dependant on, dependant upon, dependent on, dependent upon, depending on.
3.
Uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances.



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... quarter. So much we have heard from General Smuts. But though there is to be no uprising, we have no reason to think that there has been any falling off in the number of our adherents in the Colony. The little contingent there has been of great help to us: they have kept fifty thousand troops occupied, with which otherwise we should have ...
— Three Years' War • Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

... just three hundred thalers with which to honor the widow's demand on Saturday, to pay funeral and contingent expenses. ...
— The Wonders of Prayer - A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer • Various

... perusal of the paper, I found that, owing to diligent cram and native aptitude for nice sharp quillets of the law, I could floor it upon my caput, being at home with every description of mortgage, and having such things as reversions and contingent remainders at the extremities of ...
— Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. • F. Anstey

... Spanish troops were to be allowed to get breakfast before being led to the attack, he dispatched Calderon—who had undertaken to perform the duties of galloper—to Carlos with a message to the effect that no immediate attack was to be expected. Then, having posted sentries and given his own contingent instructions to get their breakfast at once, where they were, he mounted his horse and galloped up to the house to snatch the meal which he knew would by this time be ready for him. It was a hurried meal, of course, ...
— The Cruise of the Thetis - A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection • Harry Collingwood

... observed that tuberculosis succeeds scrofula. It is a well-known fact that scrofula furnishes the largest contingent for tuberculosis. ...
— Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated • Max Birnbaum


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