The adjective contingent can be used to describe when something can occur only when something else does first. Making money is contingent on finding a good paying job.
Possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual.
Noun
a gathering of persons representative of some larger group; "each nation sent a contingent of athletes to the Olympics"
Noun
a temporary military unit; "the peace-keeping force includes one British contingent"
Adjective S.
uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances; "the results of confession were not contingent, they were certain"- George Eliot
Adjective S.
determined by conditions or circumstances not yet established; "arms sales contingent on the approval of congress"
Adjective S.
possible but not certain to occur; "they had to plan for contingent expenses"
a.
Possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur;
incidental; casual.
a.
Dependent on that which is undetermined or unknown; as,
the success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he can
not control.
a.
Dependent for effect on something that may or may not
occur; as, a contingent estate.
n.
An event which may or may not happen; that which is
unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future; a
contingency.
n.
That which falls to one in a division or apportionment
among a number; a suitable share; proportion; esp., a quota of troops.
Contingent
Weighing so much actual crime against so much contingent advantage.2.
If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one.
Contingent
His understanding could almost pierce into future contingets.2.
From the Alps to the border of Flanders, contingents were required . . . 200,000 men were in arms.
Possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual.
An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future; a contingency.
Usage Examples
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
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Other Usage ExamplesSales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
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