contingent upon

1. 1.

   being determined by conditions or circumstances that follow

   “arms sales contingent on the approval of congress”

   Synonymscontingentcontingent ondependent ondependant ondependent upondependant upondepending on

   Similarconditional

Questions about contingent upon

What does contingent upon mean?

contingent upon means "being determined by conditions or circumstances that follow".

What is another word for contingent upon?

Close synonyms include contingent, contingent on, dependent on, dependant on, dependent upon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is contingent upon a common word?

contingent upon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.