contingently


con·tin·gent

C0602000 (kən-tĭn′jənt)adj.1. Liable but not certain to occur; possible: "All salaries are reckoned on contingent as well as on actual services" (Ralph Waldo Emerson).2. Dependent on other conditions or circumstances; conditional: arms sales contingent on the approval of Congress. See Synonyms at dependent.3. Happening by or subject to chance or accident; unpredictable: contingent developments that jeopardized the negotiations. See Synonyms at accidental.4. Logic True only under certain conditions; not necessarily or universally true: a contingent proposition.n.1. a. A group or detachment, as of troops or police, assigned to aid a larger force.b. A representative group that is selected from or part of a larger group.2. An event or condition that is likely but not inevitable.
[Middle English, from Latin contingēns, contingent-, present participle of contingere, to touch; see contact.]
con·tin′gent·ly adv.
Translations
eventuale