Contingency Definition

kən-tĭnjən-sē
contingencies
noun
contingencies
An event that may occur but that is not likely or intended; a possibility.
American Heritage
Something whose occurrence depends on chance or uncertain conditions; a possible, unforeseen, or accidental occurrence.
Be prepared for any contingency.
Webster's New World
A possibility that must be prepared for; a future emergency.
American Heritage
The quality or condition of being contingent; esp., dependence on chance or uncertain conditions.
Webster's New World
Some thing or event which depends on or is incidental to another.
The contingencies of war.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Contingency

Noun

Singular:
contingency
Plural:
contingencies

Origin of Contingency

  • contingent +‎ -cy (16th century).

    From Wiktionary

Contingency Sentence Examples

  • This type of contingency was not one we planned for.

  • Bernstorff was bound by treaty to assist Russia in such a contingency, but he took care that the assistance so rendered should be as trifling as possible, to avoid offending Great Britain and Prussia.

  • The British admiral, when informed that the French were at sea, justified Napoleon's estimate of his probable course in such a contingency, by making a useless cruise to Egypt.

  • This contingency had been studied, and preparations for a new line had begun, during the Austrian offensive in 1916, and Cadorna had ordered the work to be continued during the interval.

  • And though the Stoic doctrine of determinism did not, when applied to moral problems, advance much beyond the reiteration of arguments derived from the universal validity of the principles of causality, nor the Epicurean counter-assertion of freedom avoid the error of regarding chance as a real cause and universal contingency as an explanation of the universe, it was nevertheless a real step forward to perceive the existence of the problem.

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Words Starting With

CCOCON

Words Ending With

YCYNCY

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Words Starting With C and Ending With Y

Starts With C & Ends With YStarts With CO & Ends With YStarts With C & Ends With CY

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11 Letter Words11 Letter Words Starting With C11 Letter Words Ending With Y