Contingent

/kənˈtɪn.d͡ʒənt/

Synonyms for "contingent" (313 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (63)

Strong matches (94)

Noun(16 words)
conditionalconditional branchconditional clauseconditional logicconditioned aidconditioned bycourse subjectdelegationdependentdependent clause formationdetachmentdetailfallbackfuture workhingingif-then rule
Adjective(12 words)
conditional fundingcontingent oncontingent upondependant ondependant upondependent ondependent propertydependent servicedependent upondependent valuedependent variabledepending on

Related words (156)

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

13 entries
assemblagebodychanceconditionforcegatheringgroupmilitary forcemilitary groupmilitary unitoccurrencestate of affairsstatus

More specific

9 entries
conditional planconditional requirementdelegationfortuitous eventmilitary unitprovisional planrandom incidentteamtemporary measure

Collocations

9 entries
contingent feecontingent fundingcontingent liabilitycontingent outcomecontingent plancontingent workermilitary contingentparade contingentstudent contingent

Inflections

3 entries
contingentsmore contingentmost contingent

Derivations

2 entries

similar

3 entries

Sample sentences

14 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Our departure tomorrow is contingent on fair weather.

Source: tatoeba (23495)

His success is contingent upon his efforts.

Source: tatoeba (286942)

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.

Source: tatoeba (12158721)

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.

Source: tatoeba (12882500)

Showing 4 of 14 available sentences.

More for "contingent"