acting vs contingent

acting

adj
  • Temporarily assuming the duties or authority of another person when they are unable to do their job. 

noun
  • Pretending. 

  • The occupation of an actor. 

  • Something done by a party — so called to avoid confusion with the legal senses of deed and action. 

contingent

adj
  • Possible or liable, but not certain to occur. 

  • Dependent on something that is undetermined or unknown, that may or may not occur. 

  • Not logically necessarily true or false. 

  • Temporary. 

noun
  • That which falls to one in a division or apportionment among a number; a suitable share. 

  • A quota of troops. 

  • An event which may or may not happen; that which is unforeseen, undetermined, or dependent on something future. 

How often have the words acting and contingent occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )