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contingently 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
  1. (contingent) possible but not certain to occur; "they had to plan for contingent expenses"
  2. (contingent) a gathering of persons representative of some larger group; "each nation sent a contingent of athletes to the Olympics"
  3. (contingent) determined by conditions or circumstances that follow; "arms sales contingent on the approval of congress"
  4. (contingent) a temporary military unit; "the peacekeeping force includes one British contingent"
  5. (contingent) uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances; "the results of confession were not contingent, they were certain"- George Eliot
  6. (Contingent) In philosophy and logic, contingency is the status of propositions that are neither true under every possible valuation (i.e. tautologies) nor false under every possible valuation (i.e. contradictions). A contingent proposition is neither necessarily true nor necessarily false. ...
  7. In a contingent manner; without foresight
  8. (contingent) An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future; a contingency; That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share; proportion; a quota of troops; Possible or liable, but not certain ...
  9. (Contingent) Dependent upon conditions or events specified but not yet accomplished. Property may be sold contingent upon the seller or buyer meeting a predetermined condition.
  10. (CONTINGENT) Dependent upon an uncertain future event.
  11. (Contingent) Where an event must happen before a gift can be made, eg the beneficiary must reach 21 before any payment can be made.
  12. (CONTINGENT) Opposite of ‘NECESSARY’. Something is contingent if it could have been different. A contingent truth is a proposition which, though true, might have been false, e.g., ‘Mary owns an ice-axe.’
  13. Properties in Contingent status have a contract that has been ratified but contains contingency clauses that have not been satisfied. Examples of contract contingencies may include:
  14. (contingent) p.257: dependent for existence, occurrence, character, etc., on something not yet certain; conditional.  "Of course, it's all contingent on the approval of the loan."
  15. "The contingent, roughly speaking, is what has the ground of its being not in itself but in somewhat else.  Such is the aspect under which actuality first comes before consciousness . . . But the contingent is only one side of the actual . . . . ...
  16. (Contingent) A group of units formed to go on deployment.
  17. (Contingent) A property of statements or thoughts whose truth or falsity depends on matters of fact or circumstance; also of matters of fact whose existence depends on other matters or fact or circumstance.  What is neither logically necessary nor logically impossible is contingent.
  18. (Contingent) An Idaho property that has an accepted offer(s) but the seller retains the “right to continue to market” and accept other offers.
  19. (Contingent) In context of liabilities, those liabilities that do not yet appear on the balance sheet (ie. guarantees, supports, lawsuit settlements). For support or recourse, the trigger may occur at any time in the future.
  20. (Contingent) Most people choose a primary and a contingent beneficiary. The Contingent Beneficiary will receive the benefit in the event that the primary beneficiary pre-deceases the insured.
  21. (Contingent) Most statement forms are neither tautologous nor self-contradictory; their truth-tables contain both Ts and Fs and called as contingent.
  22. (Contingent) Used to describe debts that are not fixed in right at the time, but are dependent on some other event happening to fix the liability.
  23. (Contingent) does not have to be the case; the situation, being, or object could be otherwise. See also necessary.
  24. (contingent) Depends on something outside itself for its existence. This is said to be true for all things.
  25. (contingent) if it is actually true, but not necessarily true. It could have been otherwise, so it is possibly true, and possibly false.