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contingency

[ kuhn-tin-juhn-see ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural con·tin·gen·cies.

dependence on chance or on the fulfillment of a condition; uncertainty; fortuitousness:
Nothing was left to contingency.
a contingent event; a chance, accident, or possibility conditional on something uncertain:
He was prepared for every contingency.
Synonyms: predicament, likelihood, emergency
something incidental to a thing.

contingency

/ kənˈtɪndʒənsɪ /

1. a possible but not very likely future event or condition; eventuality
2. ( as modifier )
  a contingency plan
something dependent on a possible future event
a fact, event, etc, incidental to or dependent on something else
in systemic grammar
1. modification of the meaning of a main clause by use of a bound clause introduced by a binder such as if, when, though, or since Compare adding
2. ( as modifier )
  a contingency clause
logic
1. the state of being contingent
2. a contingent statement
dependence on chance; uncertainty
statistics
1. the degree of association between theoretical and observed common frequencies of two graded or classified variables. It is measured by the chi-square test
2. ( as modifier )
  the contingency coefficient
  a contingency table

First recorded in 1555–65; conting(ent) + -ency

The bill also provided $64 billion in war funding through the Overseas Contingency Operations account.

We, on the other hand, on the police side, will naturally gear up to deal with any potential contingency that might occur.

All the money would be classified as war funding in the overseas contingency operations part of the defense budget.

Turkey has cooperated at times with Israel and the West on contingency planning for Syria during its civil war.

He arrived in L.A. with nowhere to go, no job, no money, and no contingency.

The painful contingency of continued bad seasons has thus, in some measure, been provided against.

A note that is payable on a contingency is not negotiable, and the happening of the event does not cure the defect.

Ken, it is said, acknowledged that under such a contingency he should feel wholly released from his allegiance.

The House was relieved to hear from Mr. Brace that there was no immediate danger of this contingency.

Sir Robert Peel said, that he doubted the right of any one to catechise his party on the results of a contingency.

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