contingent

Từ điển American Heritage Dictionary 4th

con·tin·gent (kən-tĭnʹjənt)adj.
1. Liable to occur but not with certainty; possible: “All salaries are reckoned on contingent as well as on actual services” (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
2. Dependent on conditions or occurrences not yet established; conditional:
arms sales contingent on the approval of Congress.
See Synonyms at dependent.
3. Happening by chance or accident; fortuitous. See Synonyms at accidental.
4. Logic. True only under certain conditions; not necessarily or universally true:
a contingent proposition.n.
1. An event or condition that is likely but not inevitable.
2. A share or quota, as of troops, contributed to a general effort.
3. A representative group forming part of an assemblage. [Middle English, from Latin contingēns, contingent- present participle of contingere, to touch. See contact.] con·tinʹgent·ly adv.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  contingent on(p), contingent upon(p), dependent on(p), dependant on(p), dependent upon(p), dependant upon(p), depending on(p), detail