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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024con•tin•gen•cy /kənˈtɪndʒənsi/USA pronunciation n. [countable], pl. -cies. - a chance or possibility that might occur: They were prepared with a plan for every contingency.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024con•tin•gen•cy (kən tin′jən sē),USA pronunciation n., pl. -cies. - dependence on chance or on the fulfillment of a condition;
uncertainty;
fortuitousness:Nothing was left to contingency. - a contingent event;
a chance, accident, or possibility conditional on something uncertain:He was prepared for every contingency. - something incidental to a thing.
- conting(ent) + -ency 1555–65
- 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged . emergency, likelihood, predicament.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: contingency /kənˈtɪndʒənsɪ/ n ( pl -cies)- a possible but not very likely future event or condition; eventuality
- (as modifier): a contingency plan
- something dependent on a possible future event
- a fact, event, etc, incidental to or dependent on something else
- (in systemic grammar) (as modifier): a contingency clause
- the state of being contingent
- a contingent statement
- dependence on chance; uncertainty
- the degree of association between theoretical and observed common frequencies of two graded or classified variables. It is measured by the chi-square test
- (as modifier): a contingency table, the contingency coefficient
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