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contingency
noun as in chance happening; possibility
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The bill also provided $64 billion in war funding through the Overseas Contingency Operations account.
We, on the other hand, on the police side, will naturally gear up to deal with any potential contingency that might occur.
All the money would be classified as war funding in the overseas contingency operations part of the defense budget.
Turkey has cooperated at times with Israel and the West on contingency planning for Syria during its civil war.
He arrived in L.A. with nowhere to go, no job, no money, and no contingency.
The painful contingency of continued bad seasons has thus, in some measure, been provided against.
A note that is payable on a contingency is not negotiable, and the happening of the event does not cure the defect.
Ken, it is said, acknowledged that under such a contingency he should feel wholly released from his allegiance.
The House was relieved to hear from Mr. Brace that there was no immediate danger of this contingency.
Sir Robert Peel said, that he doubted the right of any one to catechise his party on the results of a contingency.
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On this page you'll find 86 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to contingency, such as: emergency, eventuality, exigency, probability, accident, and break.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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