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 contingency

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

Israel Bombs Gaza While Hamas’ Kidnapping Mastermind Sits in Turkey |Eli Lake |July 1, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
He arrived in L.A. with nowhere to go, no job, no money, and no contingency.

From Homeless to HBO, ‘The Leftovers’ Star Chris Zylka’s Crazy Hollywood Story |Kevin Fallon |June 27, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Instead, he semi-jokingly encouraged the “heavier” members of his contingency to perhaps make their way off stage.

Charlie Rangel Dances On |Gideon Resnick |June 25, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Even the Czech Republic, which was formerly occupied by the Soviet Union, has ruled out such a contingency.

Britain’s KGB Sugar Daddy |Michael Weiss |March 7, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

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

Black Hawk Down Heroes Recall the Battle |Michael Tomasky |October 10, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Captain Hobson, who had evidently not contemplated this contingency, expressed the hope that no such reaction would take place.

The Treaty of Waitangi |T. Lindsay Buick
But the difference will not affect my point, which is that the words seem to imply the contingency of Jeremiah's leaving Anathoth.

The Expositor's Bible: The Prophecies of Jeremiah |C J Ball
I don't believe the company ever thought of such a contingency.

The Carpet from Bagdad |Harold MacGrath
But to circumvent any contingency to the contrary, he and Red remained to guard the house and discuss the situation.

Hopalong Cassidy |Clarence E. Mulford
The thought of such a contingency was painful to Willard Glazier.

Sword and Pen |John Algernon Owens

British Dictionary definitions for contingency

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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Words nearby contingency

Example sentences from the Web for contingency

British Dictionary definitions for contingency

noun plural -cies

BROWSE DICTIONARY

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contingency

noun, plural con·tin·gen·cies.

Origin of contingency

SYNONYMS FOR contingency

Words nearby contingency

Words related to contingency

Example sentences from the Web for contingency

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