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It's a technical term. Most people don't use it even in the US. But there are at least some (as indicated in my second link) who do use it in Kiwiland.
by anonymouskimmer 3y ago
It's a technical term. Most people don't use it even in the US. But there are at least some (as indicated in my second link) who do use it in Kiwiland.
- mvdtnz 3y agoWhich is exactly my point. Authors should define such technical/unusual language.
- anonymouskimmer 3y agoDid you know beforehand what the adjective "contingent" meant? If you did, then that's enough to understand the gist of what was said (as the generally meaning of the technical term is basically the same as what the adjective + noun indicate). If you didn't, then that's what a dictionary is for. And again, US publisher of US information, where the term has entered into the common parlance a bit more thanks to such use by journalists over the past almost 40 years (with a pronounced peak in the late 90s): https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22contingent+worker%22&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22contingent+...