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contingency

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[ US /kənˈtɪndʒənsi/ ]
[ UK /kəntˈɪnd‍ʒənsi/ ]
NOUN
  1. the state of being contingent on something
  2. a possible event or occurrence or result

How To Use contingency In A Sentence

  • The contingency approach isolates situational variables that affect managerial actions and organizational performance.
  • The Italian, widely considered the other top candidate for the job, also has a natural contingency among neighboring countries whose needs could go unfavored by a central bank in German hands. Weber
  • Preparation includes making backups of all software (including operating systems) and making a contingency plan.
  • Fiedler Contingency Theory's predictive function to leadership effectiveness needs to be further studied.
  • The contingency is 415 million, and there is another 400 million contingency tolling, please look at page two of the estimate, the tunnel boring estimated cost is $350 million dollars. Open Letter to the Council: Take the Same Damn Risk You’re Asking Us To Take « PubliCola
  • My purpose is to show that poverty and misfortune make no invidious distinctions of “race, color, or previous condition,” but that wealth unduly centralized oppresses all alike; therefore, that the labor elements of the whole United States should sympathize with the same elements in the South, and in some favorable contingency effect some unity of organization and action, which shall subserve the common interest of the common class. Black and White
  • There is practical certainty as to payment, and that contingency does not affect the existence of the liability.
  • The one remaining route that has the potential to allow these claims to be run is that of the contingency fee system. Times, Sunday Times
  • In my view he would be derelict in his duty if he didn't have a contingency plan.
  • Of course, rituals can be contrived both to reduce contingency [so-called confirmatory rites] and to create it [rites of resistance]; the connections here are multiple and complex. Against Exceptionalism: A New Approach to Games
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