WORD: CONTINGENT
MEANING:
1. Liable but not certain to occur; possible: "All salaries are reckoned on contingent as well as on actual services" (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
2. Dependent on other conditions or circumstances; conditional: arms sales contingent on the approval of Congress. See Synonyms at dependent.
3. Happening by or subject to chance or accident; unpredictable: contingent developments that jeopardized the negotiations. See Synonyms at accidental.
4. Logic True only under certain conditions; not necessarily or universally true: a contingent proposition.
5. commission, legation, committee, group
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. each nation sent a contingent of athletes to the Olympics
2. No longer a male bastion, Assam Rifles gets its first women's contingent
PRONOUNCE:
con·tin·gent - कन्टिन्जन्ट
LINK: CONTINGENT
MEANING:
1. Liable but not certain to occur; possible: "All salaries are reckoned on contingent as well as on actual services" (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
2. Dependent on other conditions or circumstances; conditional: arms sales contingent on the approval of Congress. See Synonyms at dependent.
3. Happening by or subject to chance or accident; unpredictable: contingent developments that jeopardized the negotiations. See Synonyms at accidental.
4. Logic True only under certain conditions; not necessarily or universally true: a contingent proposition.
5. commission, legation, committee, group
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. each nation sent a contingent of athletes to the Olympics
2. No longer a male bastion, Assam Rifles gets its first women's contingent
PRONOUNCE:
con·tin·gent - कन्टिन्जन्ट
LINK: CONTINGENT
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