Usually means: Potential occurrence dependent on circumstances.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word contingency:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. contingency: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. contingency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contingency: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contingency: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contingency: Vocabulary.com
  6. Contingency, contingency: Wordnik
  7. contingency: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. contingency: Wiktionary
  9. contingency: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. contingency: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. contingency: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. contingency: Dictionary.com
  13. contingency: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Contingency (Prison Break), Contingency (philosophy), Contingency, The Contingency: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Contingency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. contingency: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. contingency: Rhymezone
  18. Contingency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. contingency: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. contingency: Free Dictionary
  21. contingency: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. contingency: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. contingency: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. contingency: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. contingency: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Real Estate and Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Contingency: Investopedia
  9. Contingency (logic), contingency: Legal dictionary
  10. Contingency (logic), Contingency: Financial dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contingency: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Contingency (logic), contingency: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Contingency: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See contingencies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The quality of being contingent, of happening by chance.
noun:  (countable) A possibility; something which may or may not happen. A chance occurrence, especially in finance, unexpected expenses.
noun:  (finance, 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.
noun:  (logic, countable) A statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction.

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