contingencies
Meaning of contingencies
- a future event or circumstance which is possible but cannot be predicted with certainty.
a detailed contract which attempts to provide for all possible contingencies
mid 16th century (in the philosophical sense): from late Latin contingentia (in its medieval Latin sense ‘circumstance’), from contingere ‘befall’ (see contingent).
Information about contingencies
- It is a name.
- The singular form of contingencies is: contingency.
- Languages in which contingencies is used:
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Hyphenation of contingencies
con-tin-gen-cies
- It consists of 4 syllables and 13 chars.
- contingencies is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
contingencies synonyms
Meaning a possible event or outcome:
Meaning an instance of something happening; an event or occurrence:
Meaning an event or occurrence:
Meaning an incident or event:
Meaning a particular point in events or time:
Meaning a thing that may happen or be the case:
Meaning an unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally, typically resulting in damage or injury:
Meaning a possibility of something happening:
Meaning a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action:
Meaning the state of being uncertain:
Meaning a chance occurrence:
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