contingency

stores were kept as a contingency against a blockade.

A fire in our warehouse was a contingency that we had not expected.

We must be prepared for all contingencies.

a thoroughbred soldier who weighs all contingencies

The products replevy contingency plans according to risk of product and executed by procedure of emergency regulation.

In order to increase its freight revenues the railroad chose as its terminal city a town with a large harbor. Somethingeventual will inevitably come about as a result of a particular circumstance or contingency:

It may need to allocate more towards other contingencies.

Existing contingency plans were several months old, and the naval maneuvers were just maneuvers.

She was as unconcerned at that contingency as a goddess at a lack of linen.

So we have a lot of contingencies built right around that 50-minute transition.

I just think you're the kind of person who likes a contingency plan.

The proposals are part of the government's contingency planning in case negotiations with the EU fail.

McDonald pulls out a MacBook Pro and loads the PDF of his Brexit contingency plan.

This was the Book of the Machine. In it were instructions against every possible contingency.

There's no case or any contingency plans of cancelling the games or moving the games.

He paused. The immediate contingency overtook him, pulled him back from the edge of the theoretical abyss.