Plural of contingency

regular plural

The plural of contingency is contingencies.

Forms of contingency

There was also the imperative necessity of creating a reserve fund for unforeseen contingencies, and the question ever present was how was money to be found.1909, John Claude White, Sikhim and Bhutan, page 29
When calculating a budget for a construction project, always allow for contingencies.From the entry allow
In a logical theory, tautologies could be regarded as being syncategorematic and contingencies as being categorematic.From the entry syncategorematic
But I think we need to optionalize contingencies.2010, Charles W. Colson, God and Government, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry optionalize
It provides for all contingencies; even if the confessor has to challenge tailors and shoemakers on their commercial doings.1915, William Carew Hazlitt, chapter LXI, in The Venetian Republic: Its Rise, Its Growth, and Its Fall, A.D. 409-1797, volume II…. From the entry construably

noun The quality of being contingent, of happening by chance.
noun A possibility; something which may or may not happen. A chance occurrence, especially in finance, unexpected expenses.
noun 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 they do not fulfill the contract according to the specification.

What is the plural of contingency?: The plural of contingency is contingencies.
Is contingency countable?: Contingency is a countable and uncountable noun.

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