CONTINGENCY
- the quality of being contingent [n CONTINGENCIES]
- A future event or circumstance that is possible but cannot be predicted with certainty
- A provision for such an events or circumstance
- An incidental expense
- an event (as an emergency) that may but is not certain to occur also CONTINGENCE [n CONTINGENCIES]
- The absence of certainty in events
- The absence of necessity; the fact of being so without having to be so