contingency
/kənˈtɪnd͡ʒənsi/ nom C1En français : contingence, éventualité
- 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.
Pluriel contingencies
Dans la bibliothèque
“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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