Synonyms for contingent
kənˈtɪn dʒəntcon·tin·gent

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1. contingent

   Synonyms:
   accountable, complaisant, compliant, conditional, constitutional, docile, ductile, gentle, humble, lenient, limited, lowly, meek, mild, responsible, submissive, yielding

   Antonyms:
   absolute, arbitrary, arrogant, authoritative, autocratic, coercive, commanding, compulsive, compulsory, controlling, despotic, dictatorial, dogmatic, domineering, exacting, haughty, imperative, imperious, irresponsible, lordly, overbearing, peremptory, positive, supreme, tyrannical, unconditional, unequivocal

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1. contingentadjective

   Synonyms:
   dependent, incidental, resultant, co-emcient, hypothetical, uncertain, conditional

   Antonyms:
   positive, absolute, independent, unmodified, unaffected, uncontrolled, irrespective

2. contingentnoun

   Synonyms:
   contribution, subsidy, supply, succor, reinforcement, auxiliaries, donation, subscription

   Antonyms:
   army, sum, host, campaign, fund, capital

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1. contingentnoun

   a gathering of persons representative of some larger group

   "each nation sent a contingent of athletes to the Olympics"

   Synonyms:
   detail

   Antonyms:
   certain, unconditional, unconditioned, sure, impossible

2. contingent, detailadjective

   a temporary military unit

   "the peacekeeping force includes one British contingent"

   Synonyms:
   detail, particular, item, point

   Antonyms:
   unconditioned, certain, sure, impossible, unconditional

3. contingentadjective

   possible but not certain to occur

   "they had to plan for contingent expenses"

   Synonyms:
   dependent upon(p), contingent upon(p), dependant upon(p), dependent on(p), dependant on(p), depending on(p), contingent on(p)

   Antonyms:
   unconditional, unconditioned, certain, impossible, sure

4. contingent, contingent on(p), contingent upon(p), dependent on(p), dependant on(p), dependent upon(p), dependant upon(p), depending on(p)adjective

   determined by conditions or circumstances that follow

   "arms sales contingent on the approval of congress"

   Antonyms:
   certain, unconditioned, sure, unconditional, impossible

5. contingentadjective

   uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances

   "the results of confession were not contingent, they were certain"- George Eliot

   Synonyms:
   dependent upon(p), contingent upon(p), dependant upon(p), dependent on(p), dependant on(p), depending on(p), contingent on(p)

   Antonyms:
   sure, unconditioned, impossible, certain, unconditional

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1. • Gathering

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1. contingentadjective

   Synonyms:
   accidental, fortuitous, incidental, casual, happening by chance

2. contingentadjective

   Synonyms:
   conditional, uncertain, dependent on circumstances

3. contingentnoun

   Synonyms:
   quota, proportion, share, proportional part

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1. List of paraphrases for "contingent":

   quota, contingents, contingente, conditional, stand-by, quotas, eventual, potential, possible, prospective, unity, troops, contingentes, casual, troop, occasional, trq, quota-free, unit, units, non-standard, battalion, subordinate

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1. Richard Adams:

   The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

2. Brian Kelly:

   We had an advanced party of 18 members of the incoming battalion arrive on Jan. 9 to begin preparations for delivery of contingent-owned equipment.

3. Inspector General Joseph Boinnet:

   Arising from the attack, a contingent of officers responded for reinforcement and on arrival at the scene, engaged the attackers in a heavy fire-fight.

4. Alfred North Whitehead, N. Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims, Raleigh NC:Rome Press Inc., 1988.:

   Let us grant that the pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit, a refuge from the goading urgency of contingent happenings.

5. Charles Baudelaire:

   Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.