contingency

Meaning of contingency

noun
  1. The quality of being contingent, of happening by chance; unpredictability.
  2. A possibility; something which may or may not happen. A chance occurrence, especially in finance, unexpected expenses.
  3. 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 fulfill the contract according to the specification.
  4. A statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction.

Information about contingency

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of contingency is: contingencies.
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Hyphenation of contingency

con-tin-gency

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • contingency is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

contingency synonyms

Meaning eventuality:

eventuality, contingence

Meaning :

possibility

contingency antonyms

Meaning :

impossibility, inevitability

Translation of contingency

Words that rhyme with contingency

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