Usually means: Groups representing others at events.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word contingents:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. contingents: Merriam-Webster
  2. contingents: Collins English Dictionary
  3. contingents: Vocabulary.com
  4. Contingents, contingent's, contingents: Wordnik
  5. contingents: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. contingents: Wiktionary
  7. contingents: Dictionary.com
  8. contingents: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. contingents: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. contingents: Legal dictionary
  2. contingents: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contingents: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contingents: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (contingent)

noun:  An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future.
noun:  That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share.
noun:  (military) A quota of troops.
adjective:  Possible or liable, but not certain, to occur.
adjective:  (with upon or on) Dependent on something that is undetermined or unknown, that may or may not occur.
adjective:  Not logically necessarily true or false.
adjective:  Temporary.
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