Both Uses
contingent
in
Into Thin Air
(Edited)
- "Good on ya, mates," I exclaimed, borrowing a phrase from the antipodal contingent, impressed that my cohorts had sucked it up and resolved to push on.
Chpt 12contingent = group
- Twenty minutes later, Beidleman's contingent limped into camp, where they had an emotional reunion with a very worried Anatoli Boukreev.
Chpt 15 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(contingent as in: contingent upon) to be determined by conditions or circumstances not yet established
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(2)
(contingent as in: the Canadian contingent) a sub-group united by something in commonin various senses, including:
- a squad of soldiers sent to do a job
- members of an association at a convention of many associations
- all the women at a meeting with women and men
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)