contingent
Example Sentences
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Another contingent anticipates jobs—some 500 have already returned on-site—a revitalized downtown and a new period of opportunity.
By the 2020s, contingent workers constituted a growing share of the workforce.
The Guardsmen were part of the contingent of troops deployed to Washington over the summer to support law enforcement.
A growing contingent of officials has voiced opposition to or concern about cutting further.
Another contingent, mostly composed of some of the regional reserve-bank presidents with rotating seats on the Fed’s voting committee, sees greater danger in inflation.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
