Meaning of Contingent | Babel Free

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1. Available place in a vehicle, local or institution.
2. An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something in the future.
3. That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share.
4. Available space.
5. a number or group, especially of soldiers. afdeling, kontingent فِرْقَة عَسْكَرِيّه контингент contingente kontingent das Truppenkontingent kontingent; troppekontingent στρατιωτικό απόσπασμα contingente (väe)kontingent گروه ryhmä contingentיחידה संख्या या समूह विशेष रूप से सैनिकों की kontingent részleg, kontingens kontingen liðsafli contingente 分遣隊 분견대, 파견단 kontingentas kontingents kontinjen contingentgruppe, kontingentkontyngent دله contingente contingent контингент kontingent (vojaški) kont...
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6. A quota of troops.
7. Portion, part, piece of something.
8. a chance happening. We're prepared for all contingencies. gebeurlikheidskans إحْتِمال حُدوث، طارِئ случайност contingência možnost, eventualita die Eventualität eventualitet; tilfælde ενδεχόμενοcontingencia võimalus اتفاق؛ پیشامد mahdollisuus éventualitéאפשרות आपात možebitnost, slučajnost lehetőség kemungkinan óvænt atvik eventualità 万一 우연성, 우연한 사건 atsitiktinumas, nenumatytas atvejis nejaušība hal luar jangkaan eventualiteittilfeldighet, eventualitet, tilfeldig omstendighetewentualność اتفاق ...
9. Liable but not certain to occur; possible: "All salaries are reckoned on contingent as well as on actual services" (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
10. Dependent on other conditions or circumstances; conditional: arms sales contingent on the approval of Congress. See Synonyms at dependent.
11. Happening by or subject to chance or accident; unpredictable: contingent developments that jeopardized the negotiations. See Synonyms at accidental.
12. Logic True only under certain conditions; not necessarily or universally true: a contingent proposition.
    Logic
13. A group or detachment, as of troops or police, assigned to aid a larger force.
14. An event or condition that is likely but not inevitable.
15. (when: postpositive, often foll by on or upon) dependent on events, conditions, etc, not yet known; conditional
16. (Logic) logic (of a proposition) true under certain conditions, false under others; not necessary
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Examples

“Arrests and prosecutions intensified after Isis captured Mosul in June, but the groundwork had been laid by an earlier amendment to Jordan’s anti-terrorism law. It is estimated that 2,000 Jordanians have fought and 250 of them have died in Syria – making them the third largest Arab contingent in Isis after Saudi Arabians and Tunisians.”

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