Did 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

Did 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+...