What are some alternative words for contingency?
Synonyms for contingency
kənˈtɪn dʒən si
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Princeton's WordNet
eventuality, contingency, contingence(noun)
a possible event or occurrence or result
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eventuality, contingencecontingency(noun)
the state of being contingent on something
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contingence, eventuality
Wiktionary
contingency(noun)
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possibilitycontingency(noun)
The quality of being contingent, of happening by chance; unpredictability.
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possibilityAntonyms:
necessitycontingency(noun)
A possibility; something which may or may not happen. A chance occurrence, especially in , unexpected expenses.
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necessitycontingency(noun)
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.
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possibilitycontingency(noun)
A statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction.
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possibility
English Synonyms and Antonyms
contingency
An accident is that which happens without any one's direct intention; a chance that which happens without any known cause. If the direct cause of a railroad accident is known, we can not call it a chance. To the theist there is, in strictness, no chance, all things being by divine causation and control; but chance is spoken of where no special cause is manifest: "By chance there came down a certain priest that way," Luke x, 31. We can speak of a game of chance, but not of a game of accident. An incident is viewed as occurring in the regular course of things, but subordinate to the main purpose, or aside from the main design. Fortune is the result of inscrutable controlling forces. Fortune and chance are nearly equivalent, but chance can be used of human effort and endeavor as fortune can not be; we say "he has a chance of success," or "there is one chance in a thousand," where we could not substitute fortune; as personified, Fortune is regarded as having a fitful purpose, Chance as purposeless; we speak of fickle Fortune, blind Chance; "Fortune favors the brave." The slaughter of men is an incident of battle; unexpected defeat, the fortune of war. Since the unintended is often the undesirable, accident tends to signify some calamity or disaster, unless the contrary is expressed, as when we say a fortunate or happy accident. An adventure is that which may turn out ill, a misadventure that which does turn out ill. A slight disturbing accident is a mishap. Compare EVENT; HAZARD.
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accident, adventure, calamity, casualty, chance, disaster, fortuity, hap, happening, hazard, incident, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, possibilityAntonyms:
appointment, calculation, certainty, decree, fate, foreordination, intention, law, necessity, ordainment, ordinance, plan, preparation, provision, purposePreposition:
The accident of birth; an accident to the machinery.
Dictionary of English Synonymes
contingency(n.)
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accidentalness, fortuity, uncertaintycontingency(n.)
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casualty, accident, incident, occurrence, event
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "contingency":
emergency, reserve, contingencies, unforeseen, provident, emergencies, intervention, urgent, urgently, eventuality, foresight, response
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#955 | response | |
#1885 | chance | |
#1909 | emergency | |
#2268 | reserve | |
#2310 | adventure | |
#3865 | accident | |
#4134 | disaster | |
#4175 | possibility | |
#4926 | incident | |
#5406 | intervention | |
#5437 | happening | |
#7304 | hazard | |
#8279 | urgent | |
#11674 | emergencies | |
#13105 | casualty | |
#14434 | contingency | |
#22060 | urgently | |
#24473 | foresight | |
#25403 | hap | |
#28089 | contingencies | |
#29255 | unforeseen | |
#31190 | misfortune | |
#34052 | calamity | |
#36291 | provident | |
#43262 | mishap | |
#70941 | eventuality | |
#81876 | misadventure |
How to use contingency in a sentence?
Always have a contingency budget, if you don’t use it, that’s great. But chances are you’re going to need it.
In the case that the fungus arrives, it's devastating, it will finish everything, we're designing a contingency plan to react in case of an outbreak and before it can spread.
Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel:
In a way very similar how a plaintiff’s lawyer on contingency would do it.
So it seems to be a major incident that has caused the contingency plans to fail as well as the primary system.
The 6th of March, the 7th of March is when you can expect the spring influx to rise. We have until that time to find solutions ... if that doesn't lead to lower numbers, we'll have to find other measures and we'll have to do more contingency planning.
Translations for contingency
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- непредвидимостBulgarian
- KontingenzGerman
- contingenciaSpanish
- احتمالیPersian
- sopimussakko, ennustamattomuus, epävarmuusFinnish
- éventualité, contingenceFrench
- आकस्मिकताHindi
- contingenzaItalian
- 偶然, 偶然性, 成功報酬Japanese
- ههڵکهوتوویKurdish
- contingentie, onvoorspelbaarheidDutch
- непредви́димость, случа́йностьRussian
- kontingencija, kontingentnostSerbo-Croatian
- தற்செயல்Tamil
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