contingency

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

éventualité

contingence

hasard

imprévu

possibilité

événement imprévu

imprévus

accident

sporadicité

événement

Opposé de

inevitability, impossibility, certainty, possibility, sure thing

Synonymes

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

🍀

Traductions

contingencia

Kontingenz

contingenza

eventualità

eventualidade

Zufälligkeit

eventualiteit

Möglichkeit

contingentie

Zufall

🎲

contingência

evenienza

contingència

eventualidad

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kənˈtɪnd͡ʒənsi/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From contingent + -cy (16th century).