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contingent
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contingent as in:  contingent upon

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I was offered the job contingent upon my résumé being checked out and found accurate.
contingent = dependent
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    We made an offer to buy the house, but the offer is contingent upon our selling our existing home before closing the sale on the new one.
    contingent = dependent upon
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    arms sales contingent on the approval of congress†
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    Let us, then, look at this matter, along with some interesting items contingent.†  (source)
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    He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were necessary, not quite it, he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice.  (source)
    contingent = determined by conditions or circumstances
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    Kids came and went, desks filled and emptied, friendship was always contingent.  (source)
    contingent = determined by conditions or circumstances not yet established
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    The orders were contingent on me passing the physical screening test for BUD/S in Jacksonville.  (source)
    contingent = dependent
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    Let us say that your future here is contingent upon how you decide to deal with your son's waywardness.  (source)
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    I tell them it's not contingent on how they feel about me.  (source)
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    During my admission, you said that my admittance to the Arcanum was granted, contingent upon proof that I had mastered the basic principles of sympathy.  (source)
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    My assistance with Vyndra is contingent on your becoming my champion.  (source)
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    His employment is contingent on moving the right scenes at the right time.  (source)
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    She escorts me instead to the automatic doors, and we make tentative plans again, contingent upon this and that, all of it contigent still upon Patrick and Patrick alone, and the sad and peculiar notion of waiting for a heart.  (source)
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    This agreement is contingent upon his mother's promise that she will never, ever, for any reason, reveal her identity to her son unless and until she assumes permanent responsibility for him; nor will I reveal it myself.  (source)
    contingent = dependent upon
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contingent as in:  the Canadian contingent

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    The peacekeeping force includes a British contingent.
    contingent = group
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    The direction I fire my gun is the direction of their main contingent.  (source)
    contingent = group of soldiers
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    The hit of the village was the Japanese contingent, whose tradition of prodigious gift giving made them the collective Santa Claus of the Games.  (source)
    contingent = group
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    At the forefront of this contingent was the American general—a no-nonsense figure who hailed from what is reportedly known as "The Great State of Texas."  (source)
    contingent = group
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    Were there people on Salusa Secundus before the Emperor sent his first contingents of prisoners there?†  (source)
    contingents = sub-groups each of which is united by something in common
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    But the rest of the team, he said — the MaddAddamite contingent — was confined to base for the duration.  (source)
    contingent = group
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    American and Canadian contingents alike were mobilized, and squads of grim-faced men armed with rifles, carbines and spotlights were soon scouring the surrounding country intent on dealing with a menace which, in a matter of hours, had grown into several packs of starving wolves.†  (source)
    contingents = sub-groups each of which is united by something in common
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    the Annex contingent and the Supply Corps all mixed up together, and that in the middle of the day!  (source)
    contingent = group
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    Independently of the original and individual contribution of each writer, there are collective contingents.†  (source)
    contingents = sub-groups each of which is united by something in common
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    It's just the normal contingent of the guard that usually cleans up this kind of mess.  (source)
    contingent = group
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    Let me name only captains of contingents and number all the ships.†  (source)
    contingents = sub-groups each of which is united by something in common
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    They have all subscribed to CIC's twenty-four-hour Raft Report, getting the latest news flash, straight from the satellite, on when the Latest contingent of twenty-five thousand starving Eurasians has cut itself loose from the Enterprise and started dipping its myriad oars into the Pacific, like ant legs.  (source)
    contingent = group
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    Marine contingents everywhere are trained for things like that.†  (source)
    contingents = sub-groups each of which is united by something in common
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