HOW TO PRONOUNCE
contingent
/kənˈtɪndʒənt/
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Stress “tin” and give “g” a soft sound.
Use three syllables and a light opening vowel. After the stressed short i and n, use the j sound of jam before the light final syllable.
3 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The plan is contingent on the weather.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does contingent mean?
noun
- An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something in the future.
- That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share.
- A quota of troops.
More meanings (4)
adjective
- Possible or liable, but not certain, to occur.
- Dependent on something that is undetermined or unknown, that may or may not occur.
- Not logically necessarily true or false.
- Temporary.
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IPA pronunciation
/kənˈtɪndʒənt/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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See this word in context.
The rumor of it spread through the rooms, and the crowd about the roulette received a large contingent of spectators.
Certainly history is full of necessities, but it is also full of contingent facts which were, and might not have been.
More book examples (3)
Such objections as the above would be fatal to my view, if it included advance in organisation as a necessary contingent.
A battalion of French infantry would, it seems to me, make short work of H. D., lease guarantees, Federal contingent, and all.
It is impossible: to the treasury as to the army the man of the people will always furnish more than his contingent.