Usually means: Dependent on certain conditions occurring.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word contingent:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. contingent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. contingent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contingent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contingent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contingent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Contingent, contingent: Wordnik
  7. contingent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. contingent: Wiktionary
  9. contingent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. contingent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. contingent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. contingent: Dictionary.com
  13. contingent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. contingent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Contingent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Contingent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. contingent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. contingent: Rhymezone
  19. Contingent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. contingent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. contingent: Free Dictionary
  22. contingent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. contingent: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Contingent: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contingent: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. contingent: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. contingent: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  6. CONTINGENT: Accounting Glossary
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. contingent: Legal dictionary
  10. Contingent: Financial dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contingent: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)
  2. Contingent: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

(Note: See contingently as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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