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–verb (used with object) 

1. to be an omen of; portend: The news bodes evil days for him. 

2. Archaic. to announce beforehand; predict. 



–verb (used without object) 

3. to portend: The news bodes [well] for him.  





　

"Valkyrie" could bode [well] for UA

A lot rides on success of the Tom Cruise film



Looking for investors, Sloan, Cruise and Wagner raised a development fund from football mogul Dan Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins. Then, Merrill Lynch offered a $500 million credit facility contingent [on] Cruise heading the company. 



contingent

–adjective 

1. dependent for existence, occurrence, character, etc., on something not yet certain; conditional (often fol. by on or upon): Our plans are contingent [on] the weather. 

2. liable to happen or not; uncertain; possible: They had to plan for contingent [expenses].

 

3. happening by chance or without known cause; fortuitous; accidental: contingent occurrences. 

4. Logic. (of a proposition) neither logically necessary nor logically impossible, so that its truth or falsity can be established only by sensory observation. 



–noun 

5. a quota of troops furnished.

6. any one of the representative groups composing an assemblage: 



the [New York] contingent at a national convention.  



7. the proportion that falls to one as a share to be contributed or furnished.

8. something contingent; contingency. 





ulterior (consealed, future) 

prescient 

augur prognosticate harbinger forboding

omen

good or bad

portent

specific event, usually a misfortune

portents of [war].

an occurrence of [dire] portent. (significance)

bespeak

Rose's petulant theatrics don't bespeak the [perils] of boundary-free parenting so much as a mental disorder, or a coarse [screenplay]

to bespeak a [seat] in a theater. 

[This] bespeaks a kindly heart.

Threnody