Definitions for "Contingency"
An event which may or may not occur; that which is possible or probable; a fortuitous event; a chance.
A certain possible event that may or may not happen, by which, when happening, some particular title may be affected.
A condition that must be fulfilled before a contract becomes firm and binding.
An amount of money reserved by the owner to pay for unforeseen changes in the work.
A budgetary reserve set aside for emergencies or unforeseen expenditures not otherwise budgeted for.  The Mayor and City Council have separate contingencies which may be used at their discretion.
An amount, not to exceed 15 percent of total specified appropriations of the fund in which it is allocated, appropriated for emergencies or unforeseen expenditure requirements. This term is used interchangeably with Appropriation for Contingencies.
A planned amount of time and cost for unforeseeable changes to a project.
a contingency is the planned allotment of time and cost or other resources for unforeseeable elements with a project.
An amount added to the estimate to allow for changes that experience shows will likely be required. This amount may be derived either through statistical analysis of past project costs or by applying experience gained on similar projects. Contingency usually does not include changes in scope or unforeseeable major events such as strikes or earthquakes (AACE International,1992).
Referring to the enactment of lines of nonverbal action, one act dependent upon another in an ongoing sequence of interactions.
From the Latin "to touch on all sides," (1) that which may be or may not be as a (sufficient, but not necessary) consequence of something else. (Example: His nomination as MVP is contingent on his being hired to play on a team. However, even if he is hired, he may not be nominated as MVP.); (2) Dependency on something else for its existence, truthfulness, accuracy, relationship, or enactment. (Example: God is the only non-contingent Being in existence.)
(1) Dependence on something else for origin and/or continued being; the opposite of necessity. (2) Chance.
Keywords:  adjunct, accessory
An adjunct or accessory.
When attorneys take cases on contingency, they collect fees after they win the cases or settle them out of court. Typically, attorneys charge contingency fees at rates ranging from 25 to 40 percent of the awards they win for their clients. (Percentages might be limited to lower amounts for certain cases, by state laws.) Alternately, they might simply wait to collect their fees, until the courts or government agencies award reimbursement of legal fees. Attorneys who lose cases while working on contingency typically charge nothing or relatively small fees.
a possible plan that is different from the predicted or original plan. People make contingency plans in case the original plan does not work.  200
A financial or commercial possibility. Thus contingency planning is the forming of a plan to seize a commercial opportunity or deal with setbacks in the future. A contingency fee is a fee that is paid to a lawyer only if the outcome of the case is favourable; it is usually a percentage of the damages or compensation awarded in the case.
An action or arrangement that can be put in place to minimise the impact of a risk that has gone wrong.
() -- an "if-then" functional relationship between an action and an effect. Often, there is also temporal contiguity between the action and the effect, meaning that the effect occurs, is produced, or is presented immediately following the action or onset of the action. One of the components of the Does Equation. The equivalent corollary term of the Is Equation is arrangement
An assessment of the kind of threat or conflict Australia could practically face, and its intensity and duration. This allows Defence planning to proceed even in the absence of a specific threat or scenario for a threat.
a percentage (usually 10%) of a production budget that is set aside for potential cost overruns.
an element of an agreement which must be satisfied before the total agreement can be consummated.
An outage of a transmission line, generator or other piece of equipment, which affects the flow of power on the transmission network and impacts other network elements.
the loss of an electrical system element or sequential elements resulting in the loss of supply or demand.
Disconnection or separation, planned or forced, of one or more components from the electric system.
Keywords:  chain
Contingency or Chain Contingency.
The quality or state of being contingent or casual; the possibility of coming to pass.
An existing situation, the result of which is unknown. This may be positive or negative.
Keywords:  cap, payment
Payment Cap
Union or connection; the state of touching or contact.