When an event or situation is contingent, it means that it depends on some other event or fact. For example, sometimes buying a new house has to be contingent upon someone else buying your old house first. That way you don't end up owning two houses!
What happens if no presidential candidate wins 270 electoral votes, including a 269–269 tie? Learn how a contingent election works, with the House choosing the president by state delegations and the Senate choosing the vice president under the 12th Amendment.
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contingent suggests possibility of happening but stresses uncertainty and dependence on other future events for existence or occurrence.
Definition of contingent adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. contingent (on/upon something) (formal) depending on something that may or may not happen. All payments are contingent upon satisfactory completion dates.
If something is contingent on something else, the first thing depends on the second in order to happen or exist.
- dependent on something not yet certain; conditional: plans contingent on the weather. 2. liable to happen or not; uncertain; possible: contingent expenses. 3. happening by chance or without known cause; fortuitous; accidental.
There are 21 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word contingent, five of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.