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contingent
English
Etymology
From Old French contingent, from Medieval Latin contingens (“possible, contingent”), present participle of contingere (“to touch, meet, attain to, happen”), from com- (“together”) + tangere (“to touch”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?t?n.d??nt/
Noun
contingent (plural contingents)
- An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future.
- Synonym: contingency
- That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share.
- Synonym: proportion
- (military) A quota of troops.
- 2014, Ian Black, "Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:
- Arrests and prosecutions intensified after Isis captured Mosul in June, but the groundwork had been laid by an earlier amendment to Jordan’s anti-terrorism law. It is estimated that 2,000 Jordanians have fought and 250 of them have died in Syria – making them the third largest Arab contingent in Isis after Saudi Arabians and Tunisians.
- 2014, Ian Black, "Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:
Translations
Adjective
contingent (comparative more contingent, superlative most contingent)
- Possible or liable, but not certain to occur.
- Synonyms: incidental, casual
- Antonyms: certain, inevitable, necessary, impossible
- (with upon or on) Dependent on something that is undetermined or unknown.
- Synonyms: conditional; see also Thesaurus:conditional
- Dependent on something that may or may not occur.
- Not logically necessarily true or false.
- Temporary.
Translations
Derived terms
- contingentism
- contingentness
Related terms
- contact
- contingence
- contingency
- contingent claim
Further reading
- contingent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- contingent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- contingent at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- contenting
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin conting?ns.
Adjective
contingent (masculine and feminine plural contingents)
- contingent
Noun
contingent m (plural contingents)
- contingent
Related terms
- contingència
Further reading
- “contingent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “contingent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “contingent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “contingent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
From Latin conting?ns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.t??.???/
Adjective
contingent (feminine singular contingente, masculine plural contingents, feminine plural contingentes)
- contingent
Related terms
- contingence
Noun
contingent m (plural contingents)
- quota
- contingent
Further reading
- “contingent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Verb
contingent
- third-person plural future active indicative of conting?
Romanian
Etymology
From French contingent, from Latin contingens.
Adjective
contingent m or n (feminine singular contingent?, masculine plural contingen?i, feminine and neuter plural contingente)
- contingent
Declension
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crew
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: kroo?, IPA(key): /k?u?/
- Rhymes: -u?
- Homophones: crewe, Crewe, cru
Etymology 1
From Middle English crue, from Old French creue (“an increase, recruit, military reinforcement”), the feminine past participle of creistre (“grow”), from Latin crescere (“to arise, grow”).
Noun
crew (plural crews)
- A group of people together
- (obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
- A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.
- A group of people working together on a task.
- (art) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.
- (informal, often derogatory) A close group of friends.
- (often derogatory) A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.
- 1861 William Weston Patton, (version of) John Brown's Body
- He captured Harper’s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few,
- And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled thru and thru;
- They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew,
- But his soul is marching on.
- 1861 William Weston Patton, (version of) John Brown's Body
- (Scouting) A group of Rovers.
- (slang, hip-hop) A hip-hop group
- (rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.
- (obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
- A person in a crew
- (plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
- (art, plural: crew) A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.
- (nautical, plural: crew) A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.
- (plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
- (sports, rowing, US, uncountable) The sport of competitive rowing.
- 1973, University of Virginia Undergraduate Record
- The University of Virginia belongs to the Atlantic Coast Conference and competes interscholastically in basketball, baseball, crew, cross country, fencing, football, golf, indoor track, lacrosse, polo, soccer, swimming, tennis, track, and wrestling.
- 1973, University of Virginia Undergraduate Record
Synonyms
- (group manning a vessel): ship's company, all hands, complement
- (group engaged in a task): team, gang
- (non-cast dramatic personnel): staff, stagehands
- (social group): clique, gang, pack, crowd, bunch, lot (UK); posse
- (group lumped together): crowd, flock, lot, gang
- (hip-hop group): posse, band, group
- (member of a crew): crewer, member, crewmember; nautical only: sailor, seaman
- (non-officer ship worker): seaman
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
crew (third-person singular simple present crews, present participle crewing, simple past and past participle crewed)
- (transitive and intransitive) To be a member of a vessel's crew
- To be a member of a work or production crew
- To supply workers or sailors for a crew
- (nautical) To do the proper work of a sailor
- (nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crew
Derived terms
- crewer
- uncrewed
- crew up
Translations
Etymology 2
Verb
crew
- (Britain, archaic) simple past tense of crow (“make the characteristic sound of a rooster”).
- It was still dark when the cock crew.
Etymology 3
Probably of Brythonic origin.
Noun
crew (plural crews)
- (Britain, dialectal) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
Derived terms
- crewyard
Etymology 4
Noun
crew (plural crews)
- The Manx shearwater.
Gallery
See also
- Appendix:Dictionary notes/crew
- Crew on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Spanish
Noun
crew m (plural crews)
- crew
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