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How to pronounce “contingency”
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Pronunciation guide for contingency
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of contingency with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Jane Austen Book Club
zombie contingency
- Definition summary
- (uncountable) The quality of being contingent, of happening by chance. [from 1560s]
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How to pronounce contingency
The Jane Austen Book Club
zombie contingency
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “contingency”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (uncountable) The quality of being contingent, of happening by chance. [from 1560s]
- (countable) A possibility; something which may or may not happen. A chance occurrence, especially in finance, unexpected expenses. [from 1610s]
- (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.
- (logic, countable) A statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction.
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