contingency

Bedeutung (Englisch)

1. (uncountable) The quality of being contingent, of happening by chance.
2. (countable) A possibility; something which may or may not happen. A chance occurrence, especially in finance, unexpected expenses.
3. (countable) 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 he or she does not fulfill the contract according to the specification.
4. (countable) A statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction.

Konzepte

Kontingenz

Zufälligkeit

Möglichkeit

Zufall

🎲

Eventualität

unvorhergesehenes Ereignis

Eventualfall

Ereignis

möglicher Fall

Schicksal

Unfall

Vorfall

Unvorhergesehenes

Gegenteil von

inevitability, impossibility, certainty, possibility, sure thing

Synonyme

eventuality

case

contingence

fortuity

chance

🎲

incident

dependence

accident

emergency

event

occurrence

possibility

coincidence

obsession

peradventure

providence

provision

reliance

resource

state of emergency

stock

subjection

subjugation

subordination

supply

tangency

tangential

trouble

unpredictability

addiction

chance failure

fortuitous event

unexpected accident

eventality

concurrence

contact

contingent

dependance

dependency

destiny

example

fate

graze

haphazard

instance

luck

🍀

Übersetzungen

contingencia

contingenza

éventualité

contingence

eventualità

eventualidade

contingência

contingentie

eventualiteit

eventualidad

evenienza

contingència

toevalligheid

toeval

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/kənˈtɪnd͡ʒənsi/

Etymologie (Englisch)

From contingent + -cy (16th century).