contingent

IPA: kʌntˈɪndʒʌnt

An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future.
That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share.
(military) A quota of troops.

Possible or liable, but not certain to occur.
(with upon or on) Dependent on something that is undetermined or unknown, that may or may not occur.
Not logically necessarily true or false.
Temporary.

Examples of "contingent" in Sentences

The Boston contingent is looking for a nice dinner spot near the Brooklyn Lyceum.
FINNEGAN: A lot of people now then are part of what you describe as the contingent workforce.
Horowitz argues that the term "contingent" is outdated and should no longer be used to describe workers.
This contingent is ably represented, this time out, by Marta Salij of the Detroit Free Press and Tom Deveson of the Times.
We keep reading that the female hunting contingent is increasing, while the male hunting contingent is decreasing in our population.
The term "contingent resources" is a broader description of potentially recoverable volumes than proved, probable and possible reserves, as defined by the SEC regulations.
And if there is such an idea as the idea of a contingent being ” if ˜contingent being™ is a meaningful phrase ”, then there would seem to be such an idea as the complement of that idea, the idea of a necessary being, the idea of a being of which it is false that it might not have existed.
Thus the soul is, on one side, linked to the unchangeable and the eternal, being formed of that ineffable element which constitutes the _real_ or _immutable Being_, and on the other side, linked to the sensible and the contingent, being formed of that element which is purely _relative_ and _contingent_.