Contingent /(?)/

Con·tin·gent

Contingent

a.
  1. Possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual.
    Weighing so much actual crime against so much contingent advantage.
  2. Dependent on that which is undetermined or unknown; as, the success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he can not control.
  3. Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. (Law)
    If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one.

Contingent

n.
  1. An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future; a contingency.
    His understanding could almost pierce into future contingents.
  2. That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share; proportion; esp., a quota of troops.
    From the Alps to the border of Flanders, contingents were required . . . 200,000 men were in arms.