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contingency
/kənˈtɪndʒənsi/
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What does contingency mean?
noun
- The quality of being contingent, of happening by chance.
- A possibility; something which may or may not happen. A chance occurrence, especially in finance, unexpected expenses.
- An amount of money which a party to a contract has to pay to the other party (usually the supplier of a major project to the client) if they do not fulfill the contract according to the specification.
More meanings (1)
noun
- A statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction.
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IPA pronunciation
/kənˈtɪndʒənsi/
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That was a contingency he had never thought of, and it spurred him to write all the more quickly to her.
He also apprehended great danger to the country from want of iron in event of the contingency of a foreign war.
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Stunned by the unexpectedness of it all and having exhausted the few appliances we carried for such a contingency, we felt helpless.
To answer the questions that might be asked to meet every contingency would be a pleasure, but it would overburden my book.
Even they are constantly freezing their noses and cheeks, and there seems to be no way of avoiding this very disagreeable contingency.