| 单词 | contingency |
| 释义 | contingency /keuhn tin"jeuhn see/, n. , pl. contingencies. 1. dependence on chance or on the fulfillment of a condition; uncertainty; fortuitousness: Nothing was left to contingency. 2. a contingent event; a chance, accident, or possibility conditional on something uncertain: He was prepared for every contingency. 3. something incidental to a thing. [1555-65; CONTING(ENT) + -ENCY] Syn. 2. emergency, likelihood, predicament. |
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