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Definitions for Contingency

[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.
[4] a possible but not very likely future event or condition; eventuality (as modifier ) a contingency plan
[5] something dependent on a possible future event
[6] a fact, event, etc, incidental to or dependent on something else
[7] (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 since Compare adding (def. 3) (as modifier ) a contingency clause
[8] logic the state of being contingent a contingent statement
[9] dependence on chance; uncertainty
[10] 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

Words related to Contingency

probability, exigency, eventuality, emergency, fortuity, break, strait, accident, likelihood, happening, predicament, pinch, odds, uncertainty, chance, event, juncture, incident, pass, occasion

Words nearby Contingency

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

Origin of Contingency

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

Synonyms for Contingency

emergency, eventuality, exigency, probability, accident, break, chance, crisis, crossroads, event, fortuity, happening, incident, juncture, likelihood, occasion, odds, opportunity, pass, pinch, predicament, strait, uncertainty, if it's cool, turning point, zero hour