Definition of Contingent

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Contingent

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

Dependent on that which is undetermined or unknown; as, the success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he can not control.

Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate.

An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future; a contingency.

That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share; proportion; esp., a quota of troops.

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Contingent Quotations

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
W. Clement Stone

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

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
Charles Baudelaire

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible.
Gottfried Leibniz

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Baruch Spinoza

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.
Walter Lippmann

For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.
Brian Eno

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.
James Callaghan

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
Charles Caleb Colton

The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.
John Charles Polanyi

Contingent Translations

contingent in Dutch is gebeurlijk, eventueel
contingent in Finnish is mahdollinen
contingent in German is Kontingent
contingent in Spanish is contingente
contingent in Swedish is truppavdelning

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