Dictionary Definition
contingency
Noun
1 a possible event or occurrence or result [syn:
eventuality,
contingence]
2 the state of being contingent on
something
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From contingent.Noun
- The quality of being contingent; unpredictability.
- A possibility; something which may or may not happen.
- 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 he or she does not fulfil the contract according to the specification.
Translations
a quality of being contingent; unpredictability
- Finnish: epävarmuus, ennustamattomuus
- Spanish: contingencia
a possibility; something which may or may not
happen
- Finnish: mahdollinen tapahtuma
an amount of money that will be paid if a
project does not succeed
- Finnish: sopimussakko
- Japanese: 成功報酬 (seikō-hōshū)
Extensive Definition
Contingency may refer to:
- Contingency (philosophy), the status of facts that are not logically necessarily true or false.
- Contingency plan
- Spell Contingency , a type of passive spell or neutral spell in the Dungeons and Dragons themed role-playing games.
- Contingent Fee, a type of attorney's fee.
- Cost Contingency
contingency in German: Kontingenz
(Philosophie)
contingency in Spanish: Contingencia
contingency in French: Contingent
contingency in Ido: Kontingenteso
contingency in Japanese: 偶然
contingency in Luxembourgish: Kontingenz
contingency in Dutch: Contingentie
contingency in Portuguese:
Contingência
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accessory, accident, accidental, addendum, addition, adjunct, adventure, appendage, appurtenance, aptitude, aptness, auxiliary, bare possibility,
blind bargain, borderline case, break, casualty, chance, chance hit, circumstance, collateral, coming to be,
conceivability,
conceivableness,
condition, conjuncture, contingent, correlation, crisis, crossroads, dependence, double
contingency, emergency, even chance,
event, eventuality, eventuation, exigency, extra, fluke, fortuity, freak accident,
gamble, good chance, good
possibility, guess,
hap, happening, happenstance, hazard, hope, incidence, incident, incidental, inessential, interrelation, juncture, liability, liableness, likelihood, likeliness, long odds, long
shot, lucky shot, materialization, mere
chance, nonessential, not-self,
obligation, occasion, occurrence, off chance, open
question, opportunity, other, outside chance, outside
hope, pass, piece of
guesswork, pinch, possibility, possibleness, potential, potentiality, probability, proneness, prospect, question, realization, relativity, remote
possibility, secondary, sight-unseen
transaction, small hope, strait, subsidiary, superaddition, supplement, the attainable,
the feasible, the possible, thinkability, thinkableness, toss-up,
touch and go, turning point, undecided issue, unessential, virtuality, wager, weakness, what is possible,
what may be, what might be, zero hour