contingency plan

noun

a course of action to be followed if a preferred plan fails or an existing situation changes.
a plan or procedure that will take effect if an emergency occurs; emergency plan.

When the first aircraft went down, Nixon said, they had a contingency plan, and they started putting it into place.

Does the administration have a contingency plan if those aren't ready, either?

“We have contingency plan after contingency plan,” says Buckhorn.

Instead, it appears to be part of a contingency plan in case Abbas feels he has exhausted his political options.

The Defense Department even drew up a contingency plan for a U.S.-Egyptian attack on Libya, Gates remembers in the book.

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