Contingency

Noun

 * 1) a conditional response plan made in preparation for various future circumstances including the unanticipated.
 * 2)  The quality of being contingent; unpredictability.
 * 3)  A possibility; something which may or may not happen.
 * 4)  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.

Adjectives for Contingency
remote; various (plural); fatal; imaginable; impossible; dangerous; unforeseen; future.

Verbs for Contingency
admit—; conceive—; consider—; contemplate—; exempt from—; expose to—; foresee—; forestall—; fortify against—; free from—; involve—; prepare for—; regard—; subject to—; —befalls; —occurs; —requires.

Synonyms for Contingency

 * possibility
 * See also Thesaurus:option

Antonyms for Contingency

 * necessity
 * necessity

Thesaurus
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

Translations

 * Bulgarian: непредвидимост
 * Dutch: contingentie,
 * Finnish: epävarmuus, ennustamattomuus
 * German:


 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: هه‌ڵکه‌وتووی
 * Spanish:


 * Dutch: contingentie
 * Finnish: mahdollinen tapahtuma


 * German:
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 * Finnish:


 * Japanese: 成功報酬 (seikō-hōshū)