contingency
99
7.1
- noun
- /kənˈtɪn.dʒən.si/
:
contingencia
- Before launching the event, we need to consider potential contingency scenarios that may arise.
- a contingency plan
- contingency planning
- a contingency fee
So the Pentagon has contingency plans for those things.
- So the Pentagon has contingency plans for those things.
- Lintz was like, what's the contingency if we get overrun?
- This is these, these are the contingency plans for when nuclear war happens.
- So I'm just going to one of my contingency plans here.
- But he does say there's another way to deal with these contingencies.
- And that means you really did have any kind of contingencies for bots on the Twitter platform.
- And when I hear that phrase, what they're really saying is I got to keep money in reserve for contingencies, both positive and negative contingencies.
- So for a conservative like me, contingency is absolutely central.
- So that so then the contingency things have changed.
- In the past, in its contingency was something bad, right?
- And so there is a double contingency introduced here at Zufelig Kite, right?
Examples
-
Did you also have a contingency plan in the case that it didn't work out?
-
You do have a contingency plan, don't you, sir?
-
Two, would there be any contingency plans for something like that?
-
Even so, we ought to have a contingency plan.
-
There is no contingency plan for this sort of thing.
-
We planned for this contingency.
-
So the Pentagon has contingency plans for those things.
-
They are grouped to cover every possible contingency.
-
All were practiced; all had a reason; the contingencies were covered efficiently and professionally.
Fiction book (1992) -
The company has developed a contingency plan to address any unexpected issues during the project.
Synonyms
507
1.0
A possible situation that affects what people do
507
4.3
A description of possible events used to plan for different outcomes
16
6.5
A possible future event or outcome
A possible future event that may happen by chance
Compounds
How Likely
Surface Forms
Morphology
contingency = contingent (transparent) = conting + ency
Formed by standard nominalization of the adjective 'contingent' with the suffix '-ency', so the noun's meaning (a possible event or state depending on conditions) is directly related to 'contingent'.
Etymology
Contingency comes from the Latin root tangere, which meant 'to touch', and it is related to the everyday word contact. A helpful image is that a contingency is something that 'touches' your plans only if other things happen, so you make a plan for it just in case. That's why a contingency is a possible event you prepare for because it depends on other things.