contingency
/kənˈtɪnd͡ʒənsi/ sustantivo C1En español: contingencia, eventualidad, imprevisto
- The quality of being contingent, of happening by chance.
- A possibility; something which may or may not happen. A chance occurrence, especially in finance, unexpected expenses.
- 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 they do not fulfill the contract according to the specification.
- A statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction.
Plural contingencies
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“We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Here all other contingencies have failed.
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