contingent on
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6.4
- adjective
- /kənˈtɪn.dʒənt ɑn/
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dependiente de
- Second, access to counsel is not contingent on answering police questions, including, "What is your name?"
- contingent on behavior
- contingent on performance
- contingent on compliance
In it, however, as pure will, morality is contingent on knowledge.
- In it, however, as pure will, morality is contingent on knowledge.
- And it does, you know, it is contingent on the people that are within it.
- And your experience of your life is entirely contingent on where you place your attention.
- Love should not be contingent on behaviour.
- But it's still contingent on me as a programmer doing my job properly and implementing it properly.
- You probably have a more stable sense of self and self esteem that's like internal to you, not external, contingent on others.
- But we have publicly said in recent days, you have to keep your commitments because all the progress we've made is ultimately contingent on that.
- But the thing I like about this is it's not contingent on your experience to invest in someone else's happiness.
- So it's like what is the on the the on ramp for receptivity, you know, I think is very contingent on like what kind of person you are.
- But because, because truthfully and and and don't interrupt, but the whole COVID debacle was literally contingent on men being pussies.
- And my deal with you is contingent on we get John Cena on board because if we don't, we can't just steal his wrestling highlights.
- So the reason I love myself compassion practice is because I self compassion is different in in so far as it's not contingent on outcome.
- And then finding out that the deal was contingent on the content being up, you go, well, fuck, now I can't just create freely.
Examples
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And your experience of your life is entirely contingent on where you place your attention.
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The schedule for the event is contingent on the weather conditions.
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And it does, you know, it is contingent on the people that are within it.
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We feel like our self worth is contingent on the work that we put out into the world.
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The rights of children, that is, must not be contingent on the condition of parents alone.
Academic text (1992) -
Love should not be contingent on behaviour.
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Their ability to marry is contingent on the support and participation of a male sponsor.
Academic text (1995) -
Of course, all of this is contingent on what school you attend and how hard you work to take advantage of the opportunities made available at your school.
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In other words, human action is situated and highly contingent on contextual factors.
Academic text (2013) -
"I've accepted a job offer that's contingent on finishing my thesis this term."
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
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3.2
Needing something else to happen or be true
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3.4
Something else decides it, for example a condition like the weather
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6.4
Dependent on a condition or on something happening
Depends on one main thing or condition
Antonyms
How Dependent
Surface Forms
Morphology
contingent + on
The adjective 'contingent' means conditional or determined by circumstances, and the preposition 'on' simply marks the thing it depends upon; together they compose the meaning 'dependent on X' in a directly predictable way. This dependency construction is a standard, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Contingent on uses a simple image: imagine a small group, a contingent, who will only come when something happens. So, if something is contingent on another thing, it 'depends on' that thing.