contingency

[ kuhn-tin-juhn-see ]

/ kənˈtɪn dʒən si /

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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.

something incidental to a thing.

Origin of contingency

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

SYNONYMS FOR contingency

2 emergency, likelihood, predicament.

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Words nearby contingency

continentality, continentalize, continently, continents, contingence, contingency, contingency fund, contingency plan, contingency reserve, contingency table, contingency tax

Example sentences from the Web for contingencies

Here, as elsewhere, Berg focuses tightly on contingencies but underrates the contexts which give them meaning.

A Noble Failure: Woodrow Wilson’s Presidency Considered |Michael Kazin |September 8, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Well, I suppose they have to make plans for all contingencies.

Queen's Speech In Event of Nuclear War Revealed |Tom Sykes |August 1, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Yet it is one of the contingencies that needs to be strongly considered, if it is plausible at all.

What To Do In Syria |Hussein Ibish |June 28, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
These books follow the war in all its uncertainties and accidents and contingencies.

The Hinge of War: Michael Gorra on the Civil War’s Turning Point |Michael Gorra |May 13, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

It is natural to assume that only military people fully understand the contingencies.

How and Why the "Nuclear Umbrella" Argument Falls Apart |Bernard Avishai |August 20, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
We cannot trust anything to the contingencies of future legislation.

The Great Conspiracy, Part 4 |John Alexander Logan
But in any case, there is no denying the many difficulties of this enterprise, no answering for all future contingencies.

Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. |Xavier Hommaire de Hell
On the probable, or possible, contingencies Dick Darke does not stand long reflecting.

The Death Shot |Mayne Reid
Well, M. Dupont must have one daughter to represent each of these contingencies.

Play-Making |William Archer
The works at Morden Wharf had to be to a very large extent remodelled to meet these contingencies.

The Atlantic Telegraph |William Howard Russell

British Dictionary definitions for contingencies

contingency

/ (kənˈtɪndʒənsɪ) /

noun plural -cies

a possible but not very likely future event or condition; eventuality
(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)

modification of the meaning of a main clause by use of a bound clause introduced by a binder such as if, when, though, or sinceCompare adding (def. 3)
(as modifier)a contingency clause

logic

the state of being contingent
a contingent statement

dependence on chance; uncertainty

statistics

the degree of association between theoretical and observed common frequencies of two graded or classified variables. It is measured by the chi-square test
(as modifier)a contingency table; the contingency coefficient

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contingency

noun, plural con·tin·gen·cies.

Origin of contingency

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noun plural -cies

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contingency

noun, plural con·tin·gen·cies.

Origin of contingency

SYNONYMS FOR contingency

Words nearby contingency

Words related to contingencies

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