Contingent
Contingent adjective - Determined by conditions or circumstances that follow.
Working and contingent are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Working" instead an adjective "Contingent".
Nearby Words: contingency, contingently
Working
Working adjective - Being in effective operation.
Contingent and working are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Contingent" instead an adjective "Working".
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
-
In the John Gardner James Bond novel Icebreaker, Bond gets rescued by a contingent of Finnish spies who unbeknownst to him are working alongside MI 5.
Source: Numbers Stations -
Wellsley is a strange case; The Fall of Reach mentioned offhand that the Pillar of Autumn had two AIs assigned to it, but The Flood depicts him as escaping to Halo's surface with the ship's ODST contingent, even though Combat Evolved makes no mention of a second UNSC AI working with Cortana.
Source: Literature / Halo: The Flood -
He drifted up on them, and it's quite likely that the rather small army (this was before Grimlock's contingent of reactivated 'bots came back in the Ark) was still working out unit assignments and the like, going by the state of "the army" in the very next issue.
Source: Failed a Spot Check
Cite this Source
Working and Contingent. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/contingent/working
Contingent & Working. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/contingent/working>.
Working or Contingent. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/contingent/working.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "contingent" and "working" have occurred on timeline