Contingent

Noun

 * 1) An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future; a contingency.
 * 2) That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share; proportion;
 * 3) (military) a quota of troops.

Adjective

 * 1) Possible or liable, but not certain to occur; incidental; casual.
 * 2) (with upon) Dependent on something that is undetermined or unknown.
 * 3) Dependent on something that may or may not occur.
 * 4) Not logically necessarily true or false.

Adjectives for Contingent
various (plural); assorted (plural); fresh; obligatory; unlimited; valuable; denominated; incidental.

Adverbs for Contingent
accidentally; unexpectedly; fortuitously; unfortunately;  presumably;  casually; unluckily; advantageously; possibly; remotely; imaginably; gravely; distantly; presciently.

Related terms
contact; contingence; contingency; contingent claim

Derived terms
contingentness

Thesaurus
allowance, appendage, appurtenance, appurtenant, ascititious, at issue, auxiliary, band, based on, battalion, bevy, big end, bigger half, bit, bite, body, boxed in, brigade, brushing, budget, bunch, cabal, cast, casual, casualty, causeless, chance, chance hit, chancy, chunk, circumscribed by, circumstantial, clique, cogitable, cohort, collateral, coming, coming to be, commission, company, complement, component, conceivable, conceivably possible, conditional, conditioned, contacting, contingency, contingent on, corps, coterie, covey, crew, cross section, crowd, cut, deal, dependent, dependent on, depending, depending on, depending on circumstances, destinal, destiny, detachment, detail, dicey, dividend, division, dole, end, equal share, event, eventual, eventuality, eventuation, extra, faction, fatal, fate, fatidic, final, fleet, fluke, fluky, fortuitous, fortuity, fraction, freak accident, gang, glancing, grazing, group, grouping, groupment, half, halver, hap, happening, happenstance, hazard, hedged about by, helping, hinging on, humanly possible, iffy, imaginable, impingent, impinging, in contact, in question, in suspense, in the balance, in-group, incidence, incident to, incidental, incidental to, indeterminate, indirect, inessential, installment, interest, item, junta, last, likely, long odds, long shot, lot, lucky shot, materialization, measure, meed, meeting, mere chance, mess, mob, modicum, moiety, movement, nonessential, not-self, nudging, occasional, odd, open, osculatory, other, out-group, outfit, pack, parcel, part, particular, party, peer group, pendent, pending, percentage, phalanx, piece, platoon, plausible, portion, posse, possible, potential, predicated on, probable, proportion, provisional, quadrant, quantum, quarter, quota, rake-off, random sample, ration, realization, regiment, relative, reliant, remainder, revolving on, risky, rubbing, salon, sample, sampling, secondary, section, sector, segment, set, share, slice, small share, squad, stable, stake, steady, stock, string, subdivision, subgroup, subject to, subsidiary, subspecies, superadded, superaddition, superfluous, supervenient, supplement, supplemental, supplementary, suspenseful, tangent, tangential, team, thinkable, touching, tribe, troop, troupe, turning on, ultimate, unanticipated, uncaused, uncounted, undecided, undetermined, unessential, unestablished, unexpected, unfixed, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unlooked-for, unpredictable, unsettled, untold, up for grabs, wing

Etymology
From contingens:, properly present participle of Latin contingere: < com-: + tangere:.

Noun

 * Bulgarian: дял, пай,  контингент


 * German: Anteil, Kontingent

Adjective

 * Bulgarian: случаен, условен
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * French:, ,
 * German:
 * Swedish: eventuell, oviss


 * Bulgarian: зависещ
 * Finnish:


 * German: abhängig (von)


 * Bulgarian: случаен
 * Dutch:


 * Finnish:

Anagrams

 * contenting