Our departure tomorrow is contingent on fair weather.
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Contingent
//kənˈtɪn.d͡ʒənt//
Synonyms for "contingent" (286 found)
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Closest matches (58)
Strong matches (85)
componentconceivableconceivably possibleconditionalconditionedcontactingcontingencycontingent oncontingent uponcorpscoteriecoveycrewcross sectioncrowdcutdealdependentdependent ondepending
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depending ondepending on circumstancesdestinaldestinydetachmentdetaildiceydividenddivisiondoledoubtfulendequal shareeventeventualeventualityeventuationextrafactionfatalfatefatidicfinalfleetflukeflukyfortuitousfortuityfractionfreak accidentgangglancinggrazinggroupgroupinggroupmenthalfhalverhaphappeninghappenstancehazardhedged about byhelpinghinging onhumanly possibleiffyimaginableimpingentimpingingin contactin questionin suspense
Adjective(2 words)
Noun(3 words)
Related words (143)
in the balancein-groupincidenceincident toincidental toindeterminateindirectinessentialingroupinstallmentinterestitemjuntalastlikelylong oddslong shotlotlucky shotmaterialization
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measuremeedmeetingmere chancemessmobmodicummoietymovementnonessentialnot-selfnudgingoccasionaloddopenosculatoryotherout groupout-groupoutfitpackparcelpartparticularpartypeer grouppendentpendingpercentagephalanxpieceplatoonplausibleportionpossepotentialpredicatedpredicated onprobableproportionproportionalprovisionalquadrantquantumquarterquotarake offrake-offrandom samplerationrealizationregimentrelativereliantremainderrevolving onriskyrubbingsalonsamplesamplingsecondarysectionsectorsegmentsetshareslicesmall sharesquadstablestakesteadystockstringsubdivisionsubgroupsubject tosubsidiarysubspeciessuperaddedsuperadditionsuperfluoussupervenientsupplementsupplementalsupplementarysuspensefultangenttangentialteamthinkabletouchingtribetrooptroupeturning onultimateunanticipateduncauseduncertainuncountedundecidedundeterminedunessentialunestablishedunexpectedunfixedunforeseeableunforeseenunlooked forunlooked-forunpredictableunsettleduntoldup for grabswing
Adjective(2 words)
Noun(4 words)
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1 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesderived
8 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
22 entriesShowing 16 of 22 words.
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5 entriesTranslations
74 translations across 22 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مَشْرُوْط adj (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur)
Bulgarian
4 entries- зависещ adj (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur)
- случаен adj (possible, liable, incidental, casual)
- случаен adj (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur)
- условен adj (possible, liable, incidental, casual)
Danish
1 entries- kontingent noun (a quota of troops)
Dutch
3 entries- contingent adj (possible, liable, incidental, casual)
- contingent adj (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur)
- eventueel adj (possible, liable, incidental, casual)
Finnish
4 entries- ehdollinen adj (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur)
- mahdollinen adj (possible, liable, incidental, casual)
- riippuvainen adj (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur)
- komennuskunta noun (a quota of troops)
French
3 entries- contingent adj (possible, liable, incidental, casual)
- hypothétique adj (possible, liable, incidental, casual)
- éventuel adj (possible, liable, incidental, casual)
Georgian
1 entries- კონტინგენტი noun (a quota of troops)
German
4 entries- abhängig adj (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur)
- etwaig adj (possible, liable, incidental, casual)
- eventuell adj (possible, liable, incidental, casual)
- kontingent adj (possible, liable, incidental, casual)
Greek
1 entries- ενδεχόμενο noun (that which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number)
Irish
1 entries- meitheal noun (a quota of troops)
Italian
4 entries- accidentale adj (possible, liable, incidental, casual)
- casuale adj (possible, liable, incidental, casual)
- contingente adj (possible, liable, incidental, casual)
- fortuito adj (possible, liable, incidental, casual)
Japanese
1 entries- 偶然の adj (possible, liable, incidental, casual)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kontingent noun (a quota of troops)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- kontingent noun (a quota of troops)
Persian
1 entries- وابسته adj (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur)
Portuguese
3 entries- contingente adj (possible, liable, incidental, casual)
- contingente adj (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur)
- contingência noun (that which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number)
Russian
4 entries- возмо́жный adj (possible, liable, incidental, casual)
- случа́йный adj (possible, liable, incidental, casual)
- до́ля noun (that which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number)
- кво́та noun (that which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- kontingent noun (a quota of troops)
Spanish
4 entries- contingente adj (possible, liable, incidental, casual)
- supeditado a adj (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur)
- contingente noun (that which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number)
- contingente noun (a quota of troops)
Swedish
4 entries- avhängig adj (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur)
- beroende adj (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur)
- eventuell adj (possible, liable, incidental, casual)
- möjlig adj (possible, liable, incidental, casual)
Turkish
4 entries- bağlı adj (dependent on something unknown, that may or may not occur)
- muhtemel adj (possible, liable, incidental, casual)
- olası adj (possible, liable, incidental, casual)
- koşullu noun (that which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number)
Ukrainian
2 entries- континге́нт noun (that which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number)
- континге́нт noun (a quota of troops)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
His success is contingent upon his efforts.
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The U.S. space agency NASA has been probing the solar system with an increasingly sophisticated contingent of orbiting telescopes, satellites, and spacecraft throughout its 50 year history.
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The move from the structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.
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