Contingent

English Meaning

Possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual.

1. Liable to occur but not with certainty; possible: "All salaries are reckoned on contingent as well as on actual services” ( Ralph Waldo Emerson).
2. Dependent on conditions or occurrences not yet established; conditional: arms sales contingent on the approval of Congress. See Synonyms at dependent.
3. Happening by chance or accident; fortuitous. See Synonyms at accidental.
4. Logic True only under certain conditions; not necessarily or universally true: a contingent proposition.
5. An event or condition that is likely but not inevitable.
6. A share or quota, as of troops, contributed to a general effort.
7. A representative group forming part of an assemblage.