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Word: contingent
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Meaning:
Adjective:
- Dependent on something that may or may not occur.
- Not logically necessarily true or false.
- Possible or liable, but not certain to occur; incidental; casual.
- (''with'' '''upon''') Dependent on something that is undetermined or unknown.
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Noun:
- An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future; a contingency.
- (military) a quota of troops.
- That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share; proportion;
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