contingency

/kən-ˈtin-jən(t)-sē/

{et_link|conting(ence)|contingence} + -ency

noun

  1. a contingent event or condition: such as

  2. an event (such as an emergency) that may but is not certain to occur

  3. something liable to happen as an adjunct to or result of something else

trying to provide for every contingency

juncture exigency emergency contingency pinch strait (or straits) crisis mean a critical or crucial time or state of affairs. juncture stresses the significant concurrence or convergence of events. exigency stresses the pressure of restrictions or urgency of demands created by a special situation.

noun

  1. a fee for services (as of a lawyer) paid upon successful completion of the services and usually calculated as a percentage of the gain realized for the client —called also contingent fee

noun

  1. a table of data in which the row entries tabulate the data according to one variable and the column entries tabulate it according to another variable and which is used especially in the study of the correlation between variables