contingent
B2CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
General adjective
True or existing only under certain conditions, and thus not necessary.
That you are reading this now is a contingent fact; it might easily have been otherwise.
Law adjective
Dependent on the occurrence of a specified but uncertain future event.
The seller's obligation to pay the earn-out was contingent on the business meeting its revenue targets.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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