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con·tin·gen·cy
 contingency
- pronunciation:
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noun |
| inflections: |
contingencies |
| definition 1: |
a future event that is possible but not likely.
Their money will remain safe in the contingency that all banks fail.- synonyms:
- eventuality, improbability, unlikelihood
- similar words:
- case, event, possibility, prospect
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| definition 2: |
a possible future event that must be prepared for.
We must consider every contingency.- synonyms:
- eventuality
- similar words:
- emergency, possibility, risk
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| definition 3: |
something that depends on or is incidental to something else.
- synonyms:
- appurtenance
- similar words:
- adjunct, appendage, dependence, relative
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| related words: |
circumstance, function |
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