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CONTINGENT ON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does contingent on mean?
• CONTINGENT ON (adjective)
The adjective CONTINGENT ON has 1 sense:
1. being determined by conditions or circumstances that follow
Familiarity information: CONTINGENT ON used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being determined by conditions or circumstances that follow
Synonyms:
contingent; contingent on; contingent upon; dependant on; dependant upon; dependent on; dependent upon; depending on
Context example:
arms sales contingent on the approval of congress
Similar:
conditional (imposing or depending on or containing a condition)
Context examples
Additional description of the contingent on relationship.
(Defined Contingent On Relationship Comment, NCI Thesaurus)
My friend Heep has not fixed the positive remuneration at too high a figure, but he has made a great deal, in the way of extrication from the pressure of pecuniary difficulties, contingent on the value of my services; and on the value of those services I pin my faith.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The rest was left contingent on the value of my professional exertions; in other and more expressive words, on the baseness of my nature, the cupidity of my motives, the poverty of my family, the general moral (or rather immoral) resemblance between myself and—HEEP.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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