The company plans to review the bids and ask a smaller group to make a second, noncontingent offer by Oct. 15.

It has asked the final bidders, including the tenants, to submit their noncontingent offers by Monday.

I am a noncontingent human being.

Despite their doubts, the Elkins raised their bid by $15,000 and made it noncontingent on getting a mortgage.

Noncontingent reinforcement refers to delivery of reinforcing stimuli regardless of the organism's (aberrant) behavior.

Noncontingent reinforcement refers to response-independent delivery of stimuli identified as reinforcers for some behaviors of that organism.

"If you have any doubt," Mr. Mehlman said, "you should recognize that if you sign a noncontingent contract, you're at risk of losing your deposit."

Transactional leadership behaviors include contingent and noncontingent reward behaviors and contingent and noncontingent punishment behaviors.

The executive said that Cablevision, unlike the Jets, submitted an "all cash, noncontingent" offer to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Monday for the 13-acre parcel along 11th Avenue between 30th and 33rd Streets.

Bass would not accept a penny less than $450 million in cash for the hotel, and the transaction would have to be noncontingent - Trump would have to agree not to sue Bass if any financial flaws or physical defects in the Plaza building were discovered after the closing.