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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Contingent

(A). The quota of troops furnished by each of several contracting powers, according to agreement. The word properly means the number which falls to the lot of each; hence we call a fortuitous event a contingency.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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