Contingent vs. Necessary — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Contingent and Necessary
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Contingent
Subject to chance
The contingent nature of the job
Necessary
Needed or required
A contract complete with the necessary signatures.
Conditions necessary to life.
Contingent
Occurring or existing only if (certain circumstances) are the case; dependent on
His fees were contingent on the success of his search
Necessary
Unavoidably determined by prior conditions or circumstances; inevitable
The necessary results of overindulgence.
Contingent
A group of people sharing a common feature, forming part of a larger group
A contingent of Japanese businessmen attending a conference
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Necessary
Logically inevitable
A necessary conclusion.
Contingent
Liable but not certain to occur; possible
"All salaries are reckoned on contingent as well as on actual services" (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
Necessary
Required by obligation, compulsion, or convention
Made the necessary apologies.
Contingent
Dependent on other conditions or circumstances; conditional
Arms sales contingent on the approval of Congress.
Necessary
Something indispensable.
Contingent
Happening by or subject to chance or accident; unpredictable
Contingent developments that jeopardized the negotiations.
Necessary
Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty.
Although I wished to think that all was false, it was yet necessary that I, who thus thought, must in some sense exist.
It is absolutely necessary that you call and confirm your appointment.
Contingent
(Logic) True only under certain conditions; not necessarily or universally true
A contingent proposition.
Necessary
Unavoidable, inevitable.
If it is absolutely necessary to use public computers, you should plan ahead and forward your e-mail to a temporary, disposable account.
Contingent
A group or detachment, as of troops or police, assigned to aid a larger force.
Necessary
(obsolete) Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.
Contingent
A representative group that is selected from or part of a larger group.
Necessary
A place to do the "necessary" business of urination and defecation: an outhouse or lavatory.
Contingent
An event or condition that is likely but not inevitable.
Necessary
(obsolete) Necessity.
Contingent
An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future.
Necessary
Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.
Death, a necessary end,Will come when it will come.
Contingent
That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share.
Necessary
Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requisite; essential.
A certain kind of temper is necessary to the pleasure and quiet of our minds.
Contingent
(military) A quota of troops.
Necessary
Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; - opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed.
Contingent
Possible or liable, but not certain to occur.
Necessary
A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some purpose; something that one can not do without; a requisite; an essential; - used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life.
Contingent
(with upon or on) Dependent on something that is undetermined or unknown, that may or may not occur.
The success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he cannot control.
A contingent estate
Necessary
A privy; a water-closet.
Contingent
Not logically necessarily true or false.
Necessary
Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station.
Contingent
Temporary.
Contingent labor
Contingent worker
Necessary
Anything indispensable;
Food and shelter are necessities of life
The essentials of the good life
Allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions
A place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained
Contingent
Possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual.
Weighing so much actual crime against so much contingent advantage.
Necessary
Absolutely essential
Contingent
Dependent on that which is undetermined or unknown; as, the success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he can not control.
Necessary
Unavoidably determined by prior circumstances;
The necessary consequences of one's actions
Contingent
Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate.
If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one.
Contingent
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.
Contingent
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.
Contingent
A gathering of persons representative of some larger group;
Each nation sent a contingent of athletes to the Olympics
Contingent
A temporary military unit;
The peace-keeping force includes one British contingent
Contingent
Possible but not certain to occur;
They had to plan for contingent expenses
Contingent
Determined by conditions or circumstances not yet established;
Arms sales contingent on the approval of congress
Contingent
Uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances;
The results of confession were not contingent, they were certain
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