contingentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /kənˈtɪn.d͡ʒənt/
• ハイフネーション: con‧tin‧gent

名詞

contingent (複数形 contingents)

1. An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future.

   Synonym: contingency

2. That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share.

   Synonym: proportion

3. (military) A quota of troops.
   • 2014, Ian Black, "Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:

     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.

形容詞

contingent (comparative more contingent, superlative most contingent)

1. Possible or liable, but not certain to occur.

   Synonyms: incidental, casual

   Antonyms: certain, inevitable, necessary, impossible

2. (with upon または on) Dependent on something that is undetermined or unknown, that may or may not occur.

   Synonyms: conditional; see also Thesaurus:conditional

   The success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he cannot control.

   a contingent estate

   • 1989, Thurgood Marshall, “Dissenting Opinion”, in Watkins v. Murray‎^[1]:

     The imposition of the death penalty should not be contingent on a particular jury's unguided understanding of a legal term of art.

3. Not logically necessarily true or false.
4. Temporary.

   contingent labor

   contingent worker

派生語

• contingentism
• contingentness
• contingent charge
• contingent remainder

関連する語

• contact
• contingence
• contingency
• contingent claim

Further reading

• contingent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• contingent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• contingent at OneLook Dictionary Search

アナグラム

• contenting

Latin

動詞

contingent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of contingō