Vocabulary
Contingent
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
subject to chance.
Urdu meaning
امکان، عارضی
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Pakistan will be expected to do more than simply provide a contingent to protect the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, equivalent to the Papal Swiss Guard in Rome.
- The local population should have been taken into confidence before deploying a heavy military contingent and imposing prolonged curfews.
- Yet, this emerging external opportunity is contingent on internal consolidation.
- ...[A] British contingent in the crowd let loose a chant of Joe, Joe, Joe, and Bugner acknowledged the support by raising a gloved fist to conduct the chant.
- Our dignity, respect and well-being become contingent on whether the powerful feel threatened by our opinions, even existence.
Synonyms
chance, possible, accidental, fortuitous, unexpected, unforeseen, unforeseeable
Curator example
“the contingent nature of the job”
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These entries support close reading of Dawn editorials and opinion pieces: short definitions,
Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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