contingency
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dʒən noun, plural con·tin·gen·cies.
1.
dependence on chance or on the fulfillment of a condition; uncertainty; fortuitousness: Nothing was left to contingency.
2.
a contingent event; a chance, accident, or possibility conditional on something uncertain: He was prepared for every contingency.
3.
something incidental to a thing.
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contingency (kənˈtɪndʒənsɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n , pl -cies | |
| 1. | a. a possible but not very likely future event or condition; eventuality |
| b. (as modifier): a contingency plan | |
| 2. | something dependent on a possible future event |
| 3. | a fact, event, etc, incidental to or dependent on something else |
| 4. | in systemic grammar |
| a. Compare adding 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 | |
| b. (as modifier): a contingency clause | |
| 5. | logic |
| a. the state of being contingent | |
| b. a contingent statement | |
| 6. | dependence on chance; uncertainty |
| 7. | statistics |
| a. the degree of association between theoretical and observed common frequencies of two graded or classified variables. It is measured by the chi-square test | |
| b. (as modifier): a contingency table; the contingency coefficient | |
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Contingency
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
contingency
1560s, "quality of being contingent," from contingent (q.v.). Meaning "a chance occurrence" is from 1610s.
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Example sentences
Since they are working on a contingency basis, they stand to gain a substantial portion of any damages.
By doing so he deliberately plunges back into the contingency, risk, and moral uncertainty that he had temporarily escaped.
It has to spell out every possible contingency in advance, even unlikely ones.
Human beings don't want to accept radical contingency.
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