Contingently

con·tin·gent  (kn-tnjnt)

adj.

1. Liable to occur but not with certainty; possible: "All salaries are reckoned on contingent as well as on actual services" (Ralph Waldo Emerson).

2. Dependent on conditions or occurrences not yet established; conditional: arms sales contingent on the approval of Congress. See Synonyms at dependent.

3. Happening by chance or accident; fortuitous. See Synonyms at accidental.

4. Logic True only under certain conditions; not necessarily or universally true: a contingent proposition.

n.

1. An event or condition that is likely but not inevitable.

2. A share or quota, as of troops, contributed to a general effort.

3. A representative group forming part of an assemblage.

---

[Middle English, from Latin contingns, contingent-, present participle of contingere, to touch; see contact.]

---

con·tingent·ly adv.