Contingent issues
I am across this construction today: contingent issues. It made me pause in my reading. I'm very familiar with using contingent to mean "dependent on". For example: "Your payment is contingent on the completion of the project." In other words, you'll get paid only if you finish the project. Your payment is dependent upon you completing the work.
Contingent has other definitions (check out Merriam-Webster) but what struck me today was how the writer had paired it with issues. Contingent issues therefore means issues that are dependent on or conditioned by something else. For example: "The construction of the hotel is hampered by the workers' strike. In addition, there are contingent issues like the sand shortage that will slow the work."
I like the sound of those two words put together: contingent issues. I plan to use it in a sentence this week.
